They’re small in size, but bees play a big part in our ecosystem. The Talking Bees Road Show is making a few stops in San Antonio. Here to tell us all about it
Shot by legendary photographer Dan Winters, Angelina Jolie managed to spend 18 minutes with 60,000 bees covering her body and face, without wearing any kind of protective suit.
In the caption, the photographer explains how he managed to execute the shoot. He explained that he hired his friend Konrad Bouffard, a master beekeeper, to help. He revealed that they used Italian bees for the shoot which kept calm throughout the shoot. As per the caption, every crew member on set was wearing a protective suit, except Angelina and the environment had to be quiet and fairly dark to keep the bees calm.
He wrote, I hired my friend Konrad Bouffard, a master beekeeper, to help. He contacted the entomologist who formulated a special pheromone (known as queen mandibular pheromone, or QMP) for Avedon and worked with him to capture the image of beekeeper Ronald Fisher, which appeared in his book The American West. The entomologist offered to let us use the actual pheromone from the Avedon shoot. We used Italian bees, kept calm throughout our shoot by Konrad. Everyone on set, except Angelina, had to be in a protective suit. It had to be quiet and fairly dark to