The secret life of beekeepers

I had almost forgotten about this image, which was taken last year for a "Work and Play" feature we do for our magazine. This is a professor whose hobby is beekeeping. The writer on our team accompanied me for this assignment, and we did the photos following the interview. The writer had the honor of doubling as a lightstand for this photo, holding a shoe-mount flash off to my left while I stood above the subject and took the shot. I actually had to add a section to the hive in Photoshop to conceal a plastic container used for the photo to make the hive taller. It can't all be done in camera (although I prefer to do it that way).