Some entrance photos!
Taken with my windows phone. Barehanded…with no veil 
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Beautiful, Bobby! I love the lighting in the photos. I just discovered Pro HDR X for the iPhone, and have taken some amazing pictures with it. Wouldn’t work for active bees though!
Were they washboarding? They all looked sort of lined up and organized, but not the right position for fanning. That is one busy, busy entrance you have there! 
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@Dawn_SD
Thank you! The hive gets dappled sunlight until about 1 or 2 PM then after that it gets full sunlight.
Yes, the row under the entrance was washboarding and bouncing up and down.
My wife and kids have iPhones so I’ll have to see if any of them would like to try that!
I have video of the girls I’ll upload soon.
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I don’t think it exists for Windows or Android, unfortunately. In any case, its real use is in landscape photography, which is the majority of what I do. Here is a comparison of the native iOS HDR and the Pro HDR X app - photos taken about 30 seconds apart. The top one is Apple the lower one is the Pro HDR app:
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Awesome difference!
As promised, a video from today.
Nothing special, just bees being bees.
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HAH!! Nothing special? You gotta bee kidding me!! 
Beautiful footage of washboarding. Great to see bees waxing the Flow cells and even starting to store some nectar. Your panning and zooming was masterful - I am VERY sensitive to motion sickness (I can’t watch GoPro videos of beekeeping) and I felt totally fine and uplifted by the end of the video. Very nicely done, thank you so much for taking the time.
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Is it developed by eyeapps llc? If so, it is available for android for $1.99
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Good to know, thank you. Yes that is the one. I think Bobby has one of those weird Windows phones, though… 
Fixed it for you @Dawn_SD.
The original video was a bit shaky so I let Youtube stabilize it.
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Hi @Bobby_Thanepohn did you start off with package or nuc for your flow?
Wanted to know, seeing that your is at hive strength with 2 brood boxes and the flow frames on.
Bobby got a 5 frame nuc that only had 3 frames of brood and food stores. So he has done incredibly well! Clearly a good season in his neck of the woods. 
Nice! I have the same for both of my hive, hope that I will see good result like Bobby, First hive 5 frame nuc was put in Apr 24 so 3 weeks in and Second hive with 5 frame nuc May13 just a few days. So Bobby were are you located if you don’t mine me asking?
Trying to gauge a time line on how fast a nucshould take off.
Oh and I know everyone hive is different because of location, I’m in US in Pa.
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@Zab - @Dawn_SD is correct, I received a 3-frame nuc (2 frames were completely empty, no comb even) and installed it into my hive on Saturday, March 19th.
4 weeks later I added my second brood box and 2 weeks after that, I added the Flow Supers.
Yesterday was the beginning of the 8th week.
I am in a great spot here. There is 8 acres of wild blackberries about 1000 yards from the house, a half-mile-long hedge of Privet that starts at the back of my yard (plus privet in every direction) and Tulip Poplars galore. Everything is winding down now. The poplars are done, the privet blossoms are turning brown and there are only a scattering of blackberries still blossoming so the heavy flow is about done.
I live about 40 miles north/northeast of Atlanta.
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We are almost on the same time track, I installed my NUC virtually the same condition as yours on March 12
Not knowing any better I put all five frames even though two were not drawn out at all in my hive with three additional foundationalist frames
Four weeks after that I added my second bold box all foundation less
I wanted to add my flow frames about 2/3 weeks after that, my mentor held me back another two weeks
I put my flow frames on about nine days ago now
It appears that 60% of all the flow frame joints have been filled in. Not seeing any fluid in them yet like Bobby has, hope I’m not too far behind Him
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So what your secret Bobby you throw water on them beeeess after midnight to get them to multiple like on gremlins hmmm? 
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If I knew exactly what I did, I’d write a book and recoup the cost of the Flow Hive 
I can say this (and this is probably what it was), I manipulated my frames to help the bees expand horizontally by moving undrawn outer frames in a space or two and by rotating broodless frames that had drawn comb on one side and were blank on the other so the blank side faced toward the center of the hive.
Remember, if you go up by adding another box at the recommended “80%”, that’s only 6.4 frames of drawn comb in an 8-frame hive body. Bees prefer to go up over sideways so those blank outer frames are likely to get ignored if you don’t get the bees working on them first.
That’s about 12,600 ignored brood chamber cells.
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Hi Bobby, yes I agree with @Dawn_SD, beautiful video. It wont be long & you’ll be showing us your honey harvest. Just before the one minute mark I thought a bee had wax flakes on her abdomen, however I think it was only reflections.
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Hi Bobby, Wow, you ARE on a good spot, it is amazing how quickly a bee colony can build their numbers, given the right conditions. That Flow super will be full of honey in no time at all.
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I did the same horizontally with my foundation less frames added to my 5 frame nuc after a week. I now have 1 full drawn free, 1 half drawn frame, and the third started after. Installed the nuc April 30. They are building and filling quickly. I think I’ll be ready for my 2nd brood box next week. I’m in central Arkansas,U.S.
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First pic to second is 1 week. Third pic to fourth is 2 days