In the mornings I usually wake to find that the spiders have built numerous temporary additions to our home:
(imagine this between every pair of posts along a 40-foot deck)
I don’t mind spiders, in fact I kinda like them. They are beneficial, they are artistic, and for the most part they don’t really want anything to do with us, despite what your phobia might be telling you.
In any case, I find their nightly bouts of flash construction reassuring; by morning the spiders themselves are always gone.
These were all taken with a 70-150mm zoom. Always at sunup, ‘though in the best shots the sun is hidden by fog, light clouds, or a lot of trees; I’m facing into it. Very slow shutter speed, very little breathing, and very sore haunches from extended crouching. The posts and rails are cropped out of the final images.
They look molecular or something.
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Dewy Web 3, Dewy Web for Example, Dewy Web 4, c. 2012
Ilford HP5
Dewy Web 2, c. 2010
Ilford FP4
Dewy Web 1, c. 2007
Fujifilm Neopan 1600
Isn’t it funny, how the one 3 up from the bottom kinda looks like the shape of a spider, made by all the little dropplets? Well, one with a couple dozen legs, anyway…
Very nice post. :)
Thanks, Matt. I do see the spider; if you look closely at the center bit, it even seems to have multiple eyes.
It could also be superhero bat wings!
Very very nice takes of the webs! Nice ones!
Thanks!
You are welcome!
Beautiful captures! And, an opportunity to be grateful of mist and rain… =)
It’s so satisfying to get good results in less than perfect conditions, isn’t it?
That’s so gorgeous. It’s amazing how spiders are natural architects like that.
Thanks, David. The longer I live out in the boonies, the more I realize nothin’ we humans do compares to nature.
Nice set. Great job. :)
Thanks, Ricardo!