It's Friday again folks!!!

Wishing everyone a quick and painless Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Tall ship Wavertree, at South Seaport Museum, New York

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.” - William Scott

Lighting:

430EXII @ 1/2 power in gridded Westcott 28" softbox boomed overhead subject

580EXII @ 1/8 power diffused via 12" Vello Octa Softbox over vase

580EXII @ 1/8 power in gridded Westcott 28" softbox camera right

Day 279/365

Blue-ming marvellous

When you go down to the woods today… look closely. You might find some amazing surprises.

(The photo leaves something to be desired – more care needed!)

P102-5454 Taken at: Kinclaven Bluebell Woods, Perthshire, Scotland.

I hate spiders. Like, a whole bunch. I got the creeps just editing this picture. No worries, though.. I made Ethan kill the nasty thing after I took this picture. :)

oh, and please excuse how horribly grainy this picture is....

(ps: sorry if you're one of those bug-loving people who don't believe in killing them or something... I'm 100% for killing creepy crawlies, and this one had to go!)

A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider" is a device created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.

Spider webs have existed for at least 100 million years, as witnessed in a rare find of Early Cretaceous amber from Sussex, southern England. Many spiders build webs specifically to catch insects to eat. However, not all spiders catch their prey in webs, and some do not build webs at all. "Spider web" is typically used to refer to a web that is apparently still in use (i.e. clean), whereas "cobweb" refers to abandoned (i.e. dusty) webs. However, the word "cobweb" is also used by biologists to describe the tangled three-dimensional web of some spiders of the Theridiidae family. While this large family is known as the cobweb spiders, they actually have a huge range of web architectures; other names for this spider family include tangle-web spiders and comb-footed spiders.

Is på spindelväv

FYI. In case you are wondering how an image can have so many views and little or no faves, it's because I changed my permission options once. I lost all my faves on 20 shots, and partial faves on a few others. Flickr glitch I guess.

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Refraction is a wonderful thing with macro photography - this photo is created with a simple recipe; you'll need:

- a spider web

- a flower

- a mist spray bottle

- a flash

spray the web and put the flower behind, aim the flash at the flower and away you go!

My Photoblog: don.komarechka.com

Ponds near Trap Lake. Cameron Pass area.

Web droplets refracting sunlight... spider party lights :~)

An impressive collection of flies , bugs and parts in this spider web . After eating all this the spider had outgrown his exoskeleton , and dumped it also here...

(don't know what 'Jaws' is doing in the left upper corner !)

Am Max-Weber-Platz (27. Oktober 1988) trennen sich U4 und U5. Der Bahnhof wird leider durch eine undefinierte Baumaßnahme an allen Ecken und Enden verunstaltet, daher die fehlenden Deckenpanele – so sollte es hier eigentlich aussehen: www.u-bahn-muenchen.de/netz/bahnhoefe/mw/.

Coronian Underground #43.

Old barn near Kremmling, Colorado. Late day sun after a fishing trip. I didn't fish, I took pictures :)

Monarchs mating on goldenrod in Kittatinny Valley State Park, New Jersey. Shot with a Sony A6500 and 55-210 lens

one of those things .

:)

The maneki-neko is a common Japanese lucky charm which is often believed to bring good luck to the owner - for Macro Mondays Superstition (a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck)

Happy Web Wednesday have a good day folks ;0)

I was fascinated by this orb weaver web's unique, dragonfly-shaped stabilimentum. I've read a few explanations for these conspicuous structures found in some orb weaver webs -- that they make the web more visible to birds, so that birds don't accidentally fly through the web and destroy it; that the stabilimentum silk reflects UV light and attracts prey; or that the structure simply helps hide the spider by disguising its outline. In any case, the structure of this one was interesting.

San Clemente, Ecuador

Careful not to get caught in the web. It might be sticky..

- Plitvička jezera, Croatia (July 2014)

Fujifilm X-E3 + Fujinon XF 55-200mm F3. 5-4.8

At closest focusing distance. Velvia Film Simulation. SOOC JPEG. No crop.

Really love this lens!

Spider webs in the park lightly covered with morning mist

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In and around the barn at Quilmet - everywhere is spiders, webs and insects

The rising sun illuminates the Manhattan skyline as shot from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Shot with a Sony A6500 and 18-55 lens with 10-stop neutral density filter.