spiders with nikon 105mm lens

I call it a porch spider cause thats where it lives,. This little fellow is the size of a very small pea.

I recently got a close-up filter for my camera: seems to work quite well....

For Deb,

This spider had woven a huge orb web across a 10 foot span of my back yard that I almost hadn't seen when cutting the grass. I tried to get a picture of it in the web but my digital camera refused to focus on the spider itself. Since I needed to finish cutting the grass, I collected the spider up on the back of a notebook. Then I could get a picture.

It curled up into a little lump, apparently imitating a bird dropping.

Well, I finally braved my fears and did the unthinkable (for me)...got this close to a SPIDER...!! My hands were shaking so bad it's a wonder you can tell what it is!

first macro shot with my x20

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiny_orb-weaver

Very hard to expose correctly. Pure white back and jet black body.

Found on the Pongamia tree in front of my house.

Venus Drive Singapore Macro Walk

Opened my front door and there's this huge cobweb almost in the way.

Made some good Macro photography, although a bit awkward taking them from a step ladder.

I am amazed at what this little camera can do.

I found this spider using my car window for its web.

Just playing around with the new camera and lens......

I wish they'd get off my back...

Macro shot of spider actual size was approx 10mm

Unidentified spider from suburban garden. Found under stones. 4mm long nose to tail (excluding legs). Any help with identification would be very welcome. Theridiidae?

8 image stack, 2X magnification. Nikon D5200 Tokina 100mm +68mm f32 1/250 diffused flash.

This angle was worse to process. But I managed. And got a better shot with less disturbing background.

In hockey they refer to a player who can perform at high speed and with with refined skill and being able to dangle...

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Just hanging around

Found this guy on the bottom of a leaf hanging from the tree next to my tent last weekend. I did have to stack 3 images to get this kind of dof.

Wee beastie that sets up a nightly web on the truck

This garden spider had created a home by weaving his web between two very tall blades of grass. Simply awesome swaying in the wind high in the air.

Orb Weaver

Wolf spider. I gotta say she (probably a 'she') was a very cool customer. I shooed her out of my garage and corralled her into a box and then put her onto the hood of my sister's car to have a solid background on which to have taken the shot.

This little lady was wandering around Stuart's old front door. [Thanks to Jel and afterforty for the ID]

I found this spider in the garden shed. The picture was created from a focus stack of 103 photos taken with a Schneider f2.8 40mm APO lens reverse mounted and using a flash.

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Macro of a Spider