(Thanks to David Humphries, Melbourne for submitting this).
Vita Photo Gallery Competition - winners announced
Outright winner of the Vita Photo Gallery Competition: Bee and Bubble taken by P Perry, Uxbridge, UK
Jeremy Owen, Sales Director of Vita, said, “We have been so delighted with the quality of the entries that we have decided to award many more prizes than we first announced. All the shortlisted entries – 25 in total – will be receiving a special gift and we are awarding four main adult and two junior prizes. I’d recommend that anyone logs on to our new website to see many of the entries. Our thanks go to all the entrants and to the judging panel."
Along with Jeremy Owen (ably assisted by his wife) and Max Watkins of Vita, the judging panel comprised Nicola Bradbear of Bees for Development, Claire Waring of Bee Craft, Gordon Stokes, a semi-professional photographer and Stephen Fleming of Palam Communications.
Two photographs from Franc Sivic feature on the home page of Vita's new website. They capture a marvellous sense of beekeeping in Slovenia.
Diseased Honeybee Colony
At a quarantined bee yard, Pennsylvania State University entomologist Dennis vanEngelsdorp studies colony collapse disorder and the bee diseases thought to cause it.
This panorama of a struggling comb reveals dangers such as Chalkbrood fungus, Sacbrood virus infections. and even invading bees. Also seen are bees in various stages of development, glistening pots of nectar and stashes of yellow “bee bread,” the wads of protein-packed pollen that bees eat for food.
Such imagery provides “a unique and interactive tool by which bee biology and brood-disease identification could be delivered,” vanEngelsdorp wrote on www.GigaPan.org.
Louis Rummer-Downing - wildlife photographer - has been photographing and writing about honeybees for the past 12 months. He has been funded by the EU to work with Roger Dewhurst, a Cornish beekeeper who is breeding Varroa mite resistance into his bees. The project will last for 5 weeks. He aims to film not just this behaviour, but also record other aspects of the beekeeper's job, including the Heather honey flow and a diary of events for that 5 weeks. His work can be viewed on www.louisrd.blogspot.com and this will be updated constantly with photography and notes about honeybees and the project.
'These days you don't have to be a beekeeper to have heard the bad-news buzz about bees. "Apocalypse of the Honeybees," "Bees Vanish" ... you've read the headlines, or if you haven't, you can watch them flash past in the first minutes of director Taggart Siegel's documentary Queen of the Sun.' Link to review on Film.com
West Seattleites abuzz over Gary DeBoer's artful beehive boxes...
1930's Beekeeping Video Archives on YouTube
(5 in the series)
Click here for link to 1930's beekeeping on YouTube
Bal - Honey (2008)
Director Semih Kaplanoglu
Documenting the perilous living conditions of people who produce the most precious honey in the world, living as they do on the largely undiscovered Turkey's Eastern Black Sea Region's high mountains, learning about the production of honey and observing the lives of the children in the region are all vital to the script's wealth of detail and cinematography.
The Last Honeybee (2009)
Through the stories of three American beekeepers; Nicole Ulibarri from Montana, Eric Mills from Carolina and Matt Hutchens from Washington State, Simmons follows their efforts to establish bee colonies, make them commercially successful and travel across the country with their hives to areas where their pollination is needed. But as with so many of the world's apiarists, the three are suffering from unexplained colony collapse disorder (CCD) which has not just seen single hives affected - but instead, caused whole businesses to fail. Originally released in US as 'The Last Beekeeper'.
The Last Beekeeper
Director: Jeremy Simmons
Honeybee Blues (2009)
Australian Documentary about the world's disappearing honeybees and the efforts of Australian scientist Dr Denis Anderson to save them from annihilation.
Directed: Stefan Moore www.screenaustralia.gov.au/showcases/honeybeeblues
Honeybee Blues
By Tristan Tyle Blodgett
SB City2 - February 6, 2010
Film Review
Informative, and illustrative Honeybee Blues lays out all the information that comprises the complicated and necessary relationship between Humans and bees. In a time of Industrial agriculture the busy bees are a $100 billion industry involving beekeepers, bee-brokers and bee-breeders that ship from Australia, around the world. Link to article in SB City2
Colony
'We wouldn't be able to feed ourselves if there was no more honeybee pollination' Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell, directors of ‘Colony’, an Irish documentary about honeybees. Link to article in Irish Times
(Please make sure that films you are interested in are compatible with your viewing equipment before purchasing)
Vanishing of the Bees
Imagine half a million adults skipping town and leaving their children behind. Picture an opened suitcase filled with bundles of cash at a bus stop and yet no robber wants to snatch it. The apiary science mystery known as “Colony Collapse Disorder” displays these very symptoms. Link to Hive Mentality
Directors: Maryam Henein, George Langworthy
Studio: Dogwoof Pictures
Bees in Art
The world’s first art gallery devoted to Honey bees, Bumble bees and other Hymenoptera depicted in art. www.beesinart.com
Eric Tourneret - The Bee Photographer
Large collection of photographs of life in the hive, queen, bee plants, swarming and more. www.thehoneygatherers.com
Louis Rummer-Downing - wildlife photographer...
has been photographing and writing about honeybees for the past 12 months. He has been funded by the EU to work with Roger Dewhurst, a Cornish beekeeper who is breeding Varroa mite resistance into his bees. The project will last for 5 weeks. He aims to film not just this behaviour, but also record other aspects of the beekeeper's job, including the Heather honey flow and a diary of events for that 5 weeks. His work can be viewed on www.louisrd.blogspot.com and this will be updated constantly with photography and notes about honeybees and the project.
Click here to view more photos about bees on Louis Rummer-Downing's blog.
Vita-Europe - Photo Gallery
Anyone giving talks about bees and beekeeping can now download images for their presentation from the Vita gallery at www.vita-europe.com. Vita (Europe) Ltd, the honeybee health specialist, has developed the free resource because of the increasing demand on beekeepers to give public talks.Already there are more than 300 images available for download and that number is expected to grow steadily. The Vita Gallery reflects the multifaceted nature of beekeeping – there are historic, scientific, and botanical images as well as pictures relating to beekeeping management and equipment, new and old. www.vita-europe.com
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