Unknown Spider (repost)

This is another repost, taken thirteen years ago with my first DSLR. Even in those days I liked to try to shoot just about anything. I do remember the location, it was just outside my backdoor on a large cedar tree. I must have used a tripod as I could never have hand-held this long of an exposure even in those days.

 

I remember always being aware when going out the back door at night, in case it had built a web across the door, as it was a pretty decent size, and although I like spiders, I certainly don't want one caught in my hair, (which I had more of in those days.)

 

Reprocessed from my jpeg file which I had oversharpened at the time, so there was not much I could do about that, but I have always shot RAW, even then, but never used to keep the RAW files as they were so huge, and storage was not as cheap then as it is now. I do really wish that I would have saved more RAW files, as modern software and likely more refined processing skill, I am sure I could do much better these days than back then.

 

Having said all that, I was thrilled with this shot back then, and even now I am still quite happy with it.

Done