Bulgarian Honey bee and Red admiral butterfly, our multi awarding documentary news photographer photographer Cliff Norton captured this remarkable images of two of mother nature’s pollen chaser's on Nikon Z6 II fitted with the Nikon 180-600 mm lens between the lens and camera body is a pair of extensions tubes 12 mm and 20 mm this combination allows for a safe working distance not the disturb feeding insects giving nearly full frame images. Cliff has used Nikon gear from the day he started his career in newspaper starting on the Nikon F3 HP with a second camera and third cameras FM 1 and the FM 2 film cameras in his bag a selection of lens 24 mm, 35 mm, 50 mm 105 mm, 180 mm, 300 mm and thé a 400 mm Flash guns and doubles.
Cliff is still a manual operator today even with the modem cameras of today you will find his set to Manual mode.

Thé picture timing is a key part when to hit the drive button, Cliff users short 3 to 5 bursts at a time this dates back to his film cameras FM days when you had 36 frames in a cassette (Cliff is not a machine gun firing snapper) one of the popular ways to shoot today with large memory cards and 1000’s of frames at your disposal, in all photography where timing is invoked their is a big of Lady Luck, Lady Luck in this shot is that both insects thé Bee and the Butterfly are facing the same direction and the eyes run at 45 degrees (approximately) a little bit of movement in the Bulgarian Honey bee wings and body this brings out the impact of the nature photograph.
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Location: The Balkans Bulgaria Eastern Europe

Photographer: Dr Cliff Norton