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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Inner Workings

This is a close-up of a tulip. A bumble bee had just hovered over it. When I took the photo, the bumble bee had already left, so just the tulip was depicted. The symmetry struck me as quite beautiful.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2023
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Parksville, Canada
Copyright: © Katrin Roth