I have been watching this wasp and two others build this nest outside our front door for about a week now. I wanted to wait until the nest was large enough to photograph. There was only one wasp here today, no idea where the other two were. He was a little sluggish so I had to coax him a bit to get him to crawl to the top of the nest. The lighting was not all that great and I needed a small aperture to ensure everything was in sharp focus so I used my ring flash at f/32 attached to the front of my 55mm f/2.8 AIS Nikkor.
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