Good to hear about photoguard, I need to reinsure everything before I go to the caribbean later in the year!
The DOF on those is amazing, excellent colour too. I'm guessing at the 1/250 shutter speed that it must have been a nice bright day?
Have you tried cropping to a square format? I wonder if Pollen thief might work if you crop out the left side, stick up might work also, though not sure if it'll be quite square as you really want the tips of the petals on the right?
Aye its a bit of weight off the old mind when its insured, especially when you work out the contents of my bag is just over £3k to replace with new, not something I'd want to loose in a hurry!
Yeah really bright day, I know they say you shouldn't as the lights not exactly flattering but it really helps get that shutter speed up whilst and getting a good DoF.
I'll give them both a try with a square crop, certainly think that pollen thief will work square as theres basically nothing on the left hand side, the other one might work as well as it'd help get rid of the bad spots on the flower to right, I'll try them later on and see what they're like.
Here's a few more:
Yellow Flower by
russellcram, on Flickr
Chopped the right hand tip of the flower off on that one which is annoying.
Is This a Flower or a Microphone by
russellcram, on Flickr
Black Bee by
russellcram, on Flickr
Never seen a totally black bee before.
Not so Hover Fly by
russellcram, on Flickr
And shame I chopped the bottom of the flower off, plenty of room in the shot to get it in if I'd managed to recompose it at the time.