{"id":680,"date":"2022-05-25T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joshforwood.co.uk\/?p=680"},"modified":"2023-03-16T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:25:00","slug":"bee-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshforwood.co.uk\/bee-portraits","title":{"rendered":"Bee Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During a short time at home at the beginning of 2021, I built a bee hotel for my back garden with the aim of filming a video to encourage others to build their own bee hotels and to explain what they can do to slow down the worrying decline in the bee population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being completed, the bee hotel was quickly and heavily populated and I took the opportunity to shoot a series of bee portraits to demonstrate not only their beauty, but the individual appearance of every bee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the images and video received a lot of attention and for months, they were the feature of many articles online, which I hope helped raise awareness for the importance of bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An intimate portrait of a wild solitary bee, by Josh Forwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The featured image here is a collage of the original portraits, you can see the full images as a slide show at the top of the page, and can see the new series I’m releasing in 2022, on my Instagram account<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To coincide with this project, I also produced a tutorial video on how to build and position a successful bee hotel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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