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I won’t even attempt to describe everything I love about “Sleeping Bees” but it’s detail, colors, composition and technical perfection are obviously the products of a master craftsman. And then there’s the emotion it evokes in me, probably inspired in part by the implied contentment of the bees as one of them holds its leg tenderly on the other. They almost seem to be holding ‘hands’ as they sleep.<\/p>\n
And by the way, for those photographers who think that the latest expensive photo gear is required for quality photos, Ronnie photographed the sleeping bees with an old 6MP Nikon D100 at f\/11.<\/p>\n
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OK, now comes the unexplainable. Soon after I received my print of “Sleeping Bees” life got in the way and I almost completely forgot about it. It was stored under a bed in a spare bedroom, still enclosed in its shipping box, for ten long years. But when Jerry died, reminding me of Ronnie, I resurrected it and immediately knew I had to have it professionally framed and hung somewhere in my home.<\/p>\n
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So that’s what I did. I got it back from the framer two days ago.<\/p>\n
Photos of framed photos never look good, especially when I take them, but here it is on one of my walls in its 20″ x 26″ custom frame. This photo doesn’t do justice to the image so I really hope you opened the link above and inspected it carefully. The detail and colors in my print are even more remarkable than they are in the linked version of the photo.<\/p>\n
But that wasn’t the end of it. The sequence of Jerry’s death, Ronnie’s memory and the resulting framed print of “Sleeping Bees” inspired me to take one additional step.<\/p>\n
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Readers will remember this Pied-billed Grebe photo I posted three days ago. In that post I wasn’t shy about proclaiming my love for the reflections in the water, the pose of the grebe, and the photo overall.<\/p>\n
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So I found a custom but pre-built frame for the grebe photo and hung that one too. Temporarily this one’s hung above my living room fireplace in place of the Black-billed Magpie print that many of you remember (my “magpie hat”) but it probably won’t remain there.<\/p>\n
I’m still playing musical chairs with both newly framed prints so at the moment many of the framed photos and other artworks in my home are in disarray as I try to make final decisions as to where everything will end up.<\/p>\n
The process is both fun and a little discombobulating, especially given my limited aesthetic sense, so it’ll probably be a work in progress for a while.<\/p>\n
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Notes: <\/em><\/p>\n This comment about Ronnie Gaubert in an online tribute to him jumped out at me – Ronnie’s photos “probably sold more Nikkor 300mm f4 AF-S lenses for Nikon than any ad campaign ever could.”<\/em><\/p>\n My good friend Jim DeWitt (Wickersham’s Conscience) has a wonderful photo of Ronnie on his own older blog post honoring him. Here’s the link<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took one of them and the other one I didn’t. One’s a bird and the other one isn’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n