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Creative spider web work..Cannot tell you exactly where the colors are coming from other than perhaps the sun?
Taken for Active Assignment Weekly - Nature's Geometric Shapes...
Orb web construction
During the process of making an orb web, the spider will use its own body for measurements.
Many webs span gaps between objects which the spider could not cross by crawling. This is done by letting out a first fine adhesive thread to drift on the faintest breeze across a gap. When it sticks to a suitable surface at the far end, the spider will carefully walk along it and strengthen it with a second thread. This process is repeated until the thread is strong enough to support the rest of the web.
After strengthening the first thread, the spider will continue to make a Y-shaped netting. The first three radials of the web are now constructed. More radials are added, making sure that the distance between each radial is small enough to cross. This means that the number of radials in a web directly depends on the size of the spider plus the size of the web.
After the radials are complete, the spider will fortify the center of the web with about five circular threads. Then a spiral of non-sticky, widely spaced threads is made for the spider to easily move around its own web during construction, working from the inside out. Then, beginning from the outside in, the spider will methodically replace this spiral with another, more closely spaced one of adhesive threads. It will utilize the initial radiating lines as well as the non-sticky spirals as guide lines. The spaces between each spiral will be directly proportional to the distance from the tip of its back legs to its spinners. This is one way the spider will use its own body as a measuring/spacing device. While the sticky spirals are formed, the non-adhesive spirals are removed as there is no need for them anymore.
After the spider has completed its web, it will chew off the initial three center spiral threads then sit and wait. If the web is broken without any structural damage during the construction, the spider does not make any initial attempts to rectify the problem.
The spider, after spinning its web, will then wait on or near the web for a prey animal to become trapped. The spider senses the impact and struggle of a prey animal by vibrations transmitted through the web. A spider positioned in the middle of the web makes for a highly visible prey for birds and other predators, even without web decorations. Many day-hunting orb-web spinners reduce this risk by hiding at the edge of the web with one foot on a signal line from the hub or by appearing to be inedible or unappetizing.
Spiders do not usually adhere to their own webs, because they are able to spin both sticky and non-sticky types of silk, and are careful to travel across only non-sticky portions of the web. However, they are not immune to their own glue. Some of the strands of the web are sticky, and others are not. For example, if a spider has chosen to wait along the outer edges of its web, it may spin a non-sticky prey or signal line to the web hub to monitor web movement.
it's interesting to make an image that goes against the grain of everything you learned in art.
i had to make the decision to not photograph my friends pretty head here because the image is about her shoes rather than who she is.
and being a feminist, i don't want to objectify women in the way that cutting off one's head does. but she and i discussed this (she is an artist too) and came to the conclusion that this image only becomes about the lower half when we eliminate her face.
this will be an interesting and challenging journey- photographing fetish heels. i look forward to where this will lead me and what i will learn from it.
I saw this spider web in my carport reflecting the sunlight (but not like this). So I stood on my tip toes and tried to stand still to shoot it over my fence and try to capture the light.
I forgot all about what settings I had and as you can see, I didn't do a very good job of getting it focused etc. So this is really a goof up.
Great viewed large.
Hasselblad 501C, Carl Zeiss 50mm f/4 CF FLE Distagon, Kodak Ektar 100 (expired 2012)
+ scanned using an Epson Photo 3200 and Silverfast Ai 6
+ these were shot sometime last year
uploaded for Sue as requested :) This was part of Wet Webs 2 slide show below. I was walking in a web wonderland.
A proposal of marriage (accepted) on the High Line in New York City. Sony A6000 with 18-55 lens. Photoshop and Nik software.
One misty morning we were out and about walking early enough to catch the light glistening on the dew covered webs!