hi Mike, last as usual lately, - I agree with the others, - and I like the way the pollen gives the bee a sortof "golden glow". I have the same problem quite often, where the autofocus doesn't know quite where or what to focus on. But I haven't got a macro lens for this camera, so can't give much advice, except to just keep taking lots of pics, as the others said. Plus I sure hope your appendix settles down. No fun. I've been getting a few g/b twinges lately again too.

Pretty good macro Mike.. The good things I see are the nice colors and you got the bee's face instead of it's rear. You also got down to eye level with him. As mentioned you want your main subject to be in focus. When in the macro setting the depth of field is really small and it makes it hard to even get the whole insect in focus. Take lots of photos, I think the average is for every 35 photos you take you get one nice one. My average is I think 45 to 50 for one good one :)

I would like to have seen the bee or the flower a bit sharper.The camera focused on the bottom of the blossom and that is not where you want the eye to go.Love all the pollen on the bee tho'