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More goofing around with extreme blur. It's fun abstracting with blur but after a while I find I have trouble composing regular non-blurred shots!
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"The orb weaver's web is a masterful creation, designed to ensnare meals efficiently. The spokes of the web are primarily non-sticky silk and serve as walkways for the spider to move about the web. The circular strands do the dirty work. Insects become stuck to these sticky threads on contact.
Most orb weavers are nocturnal. During daylight hours, the spider may retreat to a nearby branch or leaf but will spin a trapline from the web. Any slight vibration of the web will travel down the trapline, alerting her to a potential catch. The orb weaver possesses venom, which she uses to immobilize her prey.
When threatened by people or most anything larger than herself, an orb weaver's first response is to flee. Rarely, if handled, will she bite; when she does, the bite is mild."
It is that time of year when the Orb Weaver Spiders are spinning webs all over. Spotted a number at Willband Creek Park this morning.
backside in their dewy web.
I had to check fences again this morning and of course one of the animals was in a place she wasn't supposed to be.
But I didn't waste my morning walk as I found such incredible sights in the meadow.
HOT, sticky ... and so worth it!
Spiny orb weaver (Micrathena (?) sp.) - Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
A spiny orb weaver spider from Yasuni constructing an egg case on the back side of a leaf which it had suspended from silk strands. The leaf was slowly spinning in place so I set up to photograph this spider and just had to wait for the leaf to spin around so that the spider was facing me. I've seen numerous orb weavers building egg cases such on a lone leaf dangling from a web strand however this was one of the prettiest species I have seen doing this.
Green Chrysanthemum, you know the ones which are in supermarket flowers with lots of flowers on a stem. Orb Style which reminds me of one of those glass paper weights.
The Orb Probes by Daniel Arrhakis (2015)
For details you must see a bigger image :
www.flickr.com/photos/arrhakis/16219370717/sizes/k/
And the Music : Zack Hemsey - "Informing The Target"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFcqN-J6sMo
- We are always on alert with our probes, at any moment we can have the visit of our invaders ... they are our eyes ! This is a image seen within one of them. We call them Sentinels !
In first plan Whorthyr the Prime World of the Trhyarths, our enemy ... the leader mining planet with is huge Circular City .. our orbs are not the only, they also have their ...
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Some of the space elements were modified or transform, others are created. For some planet elements photo credit "Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech".
I finally got a good shot as she was producing web strands. This little lady has been very interesting to watch. She is about 1/2" long total length.
Such a fantastic event organised at Centennial Park (Sydney) by Peter Solness. What a great evening!!!
A new to me location in the middle of nowhere which I was surprised to find a lot easier than I expected especially arriving after dark. Shot in one photographic exposure as usual, orbs on loan from Denis Smith's Ball of Light tool
Please veiw large and note the colour of the web!!
The golden orb weavers are one of the largest spiders found in Australia. Their webs can be found hanging off sign posts, in or between trees and can even be spotted driving 100 km/h in a vehicle. The females can measure up to 45 mm while the smaller males measure only 6 mm. The male is often found in the web of his girl friend. Beside the male and the female boarders resides in the web. They are called quicksilver, dewdrop or droplet spider because their silvery body shines like drops of water in the sun.
If you look closely at the web you can notice that the snares have a golden color. The web is extremely strong. So strong that even small birds stick in the net.
I was in Bolsa Chica on Saturday. It was a high tide so many 'digger' birds were not in action. However, on the north side there was an Osprey sitting at a high branch, A few hopeful photographers aimed at it for it to fly and catch something. However, it did not happen for half an hour (I left after that). A fellow photographer was looking around and found three different spider webs with 4 orb weavers. This is one of them. A six image HDR.
Another top night in Chee Tor tunnel, Derbyshire with fellow light painting lunatic, Tim Gamble. This was nailed fairly quickly using Tim's orb skills because I am severely rusty at these things!
My son took this shot when we went on a photophari to the Great Salt Lake last night!!!! Creepy.....
I took a photograph of the rose window at Chiesa di Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome and flipped it into an orb.
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Up until June 6, 2021, I had seen maybe two specimens of Gea heptagon in my entire life. On that day I found two, one of each sex, in our back yard in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
Steel wool spin, orb created with plexi blade, flashlight on strobe mode. Flashlight with LPB yellow hood.
I believe this is an Argiope trifasciata, or Banded Garden Spider. Female, I think. I had been looking for dewdrops to photograph among the cattails and other brush when my friend Joy saw me and asked "Find any interesting orb weavers?" I immediately shifted gears, she and I both stumbled onto spiders of interest. This one was jeweled in dew drops. My spider book doesn't cover these and the internet doesn't offer a lot of detail. I'm going to need a better book! What I have found is that they are fairly common throughout the continental US, especially during late summer/early autumn. So check your weeds, you may have one or more of these beauties lurking about. Photographed during my amazing trainee weekend with the New York Master Naturalist program. Arnot Forest, NY. Four images stacked to capture focus throughout the body, legs and web. September 23, 2018
Last night I found this orb construction site, it seems out in the open they need to be assembled. Good thing the orb fits perfectly inside the underpass, but looks like it was a challenge to place the scaffolding without taking up the space for the orb.