The Perfect Candlelit Dinner

A sweat bee explores an evening primrose flower that opened only a few hours earlier, in the darkness. The flower’s pop-up bloom remains open to insects for less than 24 hours.

The photograph was taken with a 1/640-second exposure, an f5.6 aperture, ISO 800 and a 60 mm macro lens on a Micro Four Thirds sensor, producing a field of view equivalent to 120 mm on a full-frame camera.

Romantic dinners can happen anywhere, the blog notes, but the garden recently offered a perfect candlelit dinner of its own.