[Photo] Itsy Bitsy Spider

[karohemd]

Spotted this beauty in a huge web between the side of the shed and the garden gate (from the passage). While I was watching it, it was perfectly still, despite clearly having some prey. When I came back to it later, the little bug was wrapped up in a neat little package but I didn't have the camera, did something else and forgot about it. When I remembered, the package had gone.

all taken with Nikon D80, Tamron 90mm f2.8

Comments

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

awww it's so cute.:)

[caseytalk.livejournal.com]

Very nice work.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The problem was the focussing. At such shallow depth of field, the smallest movement of the web in the air would screw the focus.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I'm amazed I ever get anything good out of shots like this.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I tried to take a photo of a spider eating a ladybird in my bathroom (when biological pest control goes wrong) but only succeeded in getting a black and red blur.

[caseytalk.livejournal.com]

I have problems focusing even when using a deeper depth of field, which is why I was impressed with this work. I also like the soft colouring of the background setting off the spider without detracting. You had to work with what was there, but you seem to have been lucky on that score.

[allucius.livejournal.com]

Ozzy, you have some friends who are aracnaphobic, and yes seeing even the small pic can freak some of them!

Just a thought mate, hide it behind an LJ-cut, please

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Done.

[dmh.livejournal.com]

*Nyom*

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

I did see them on the RSS feed earlier, and 5 years or so ago I would have been in a corner refusing to touch the computer again, but I've trained myself out of that. Cool pics, although I kind of skimmed past them rather than studying in detail

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I like those spiders, we had one of those in the garden in the summer a few years ago. All summer it stayed in the same web, growing until it had reached a good size. Then winter came and I stopped going outside so who knows what happened to it.

[nikkita422.livejournal.com]

gorgeous. whatever happened to those spiders from St Louis?

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Cute spider piccies!

I wonder if it's so bulbous because it's about to lay hundreds of eggs. :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

Heh.
It didn't look extremely bulbous to me, the body shape is quite normal for a garden spider.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's maybe just because it has it's legs drawn in that makes it's bum look bigger! Still, it would be nice to see hundreds of little baby spiders running around. :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I shall watch out for them. I didn't check this morning and I didn't notice it so I hope the rain/wind hasn't destroyed the web as it is rather exposed. Would be a shame.