I'm totally scared of bees. When one gets into my home I can't relax until it's dead or removed from the premises. I avoid flowers when I'm outside. I have always been that guy who gets anxious and upset at a picnic when bees buzz around the food, fearing one will get in my mouth, or sting me. So, when I got a call to go photograph an NYC beekeeper and his rooftop hive of over 300,000 bees, I had to face my fears and get up close to the action. Classic. Remember Indiana Jones tumbling into a pit of asps and cobras? "Why did it have to be snakes?" Andrew Cote is a fourth-generation beekeeper, so he was pretty blase` about the whole thing, but he got stung twice while I was shooting. (I wasn't stung even once!) Here's my favorite shot from the day: