My children and I were exploring Basin Meadow near the north rim of the Grand Canyon when they started running from a bumble bee that was flying near them. After a short while, they were the ones chasing the bee around. When I caught up with them, they pointed out the unusual colors of the bee and I started photographing it. That was an exercise in frustration as the bee rarely stopped for very long. Later we looked up the bee in a book at the visitor center and learned it was a tri-colored bumble bee.
Photographer: Rick Scott
Date: June 6, 2008
Camera: Canon EOS 40D digital camera
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM set to 200mm
Exposure: 1/640 second at f/5.6
Camera Mode: ISO 100 RAW
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for raw conversion and image processing
Updated: 30 July 2009