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I thought these rain droplets looked like mini globes- World Wide Web one of the main sources of news and information.
Project Flickr - Journalism
Challenge - Weather
Morning dew on a small messy web with a bokeh classic web in front! Also see my upside down garden through the natural lens of a tiny dewdrop!
Brooklyn Bridge as photographed from South Street Seaport. Shot with Sony A6500 and Sigma 24mm lens. Camera mounted on a Platypod.
Not every photo of writing spiders centred upon conspicuous, decorative webs on the periphery of the floras around the building that I take actually gets published. The more photographs I stocked of the writing spiders, the less fascinated I got about them. The fact that they are the most common species in the surrounding contributed to my gradual disenchantment towards them. The maxim 'familiarity breeds contempt' proves true for all animate things and inanimate alike. We tend to take things and people for granted after we get accustomed to them. There is often a misconception that we already know everything there is to know about them, and that is when the disinterest sets in.
No matter how rampant they are, the probability of spotting a writing spider on a completed web is however low; average of one per month. The effort and time the fairly small spiders put into the development of their wonder web might give account to the statistic. And this causes them to be perceived to be as scarce as the smaller camouflaging crab spiders and lowlight-hunting lynx spiders resident in the common habitat.‎
I was eager to show off the first writing spider. It was an exciting find. I had never seen a web as decorated before. ‎The following observation which was slightly different in colouring was also shared, in sequence to the first. Subsequent sightings in the environment were no different from the originals. I am inclined to ignore new observations if there are no peculiar features found on them. Others I do not completely ignore, I use to warm my camera by exploring new perspectives and practising better focus. Good images taken are retained for a while in my device or camera memory. They get reviewed regularly. Some get deleted after a while.
Above is a photo of the most recent writing spider. Its glorified web was suspended over a depression in a hedge next to a walk way. ‎The next few days witnessed an unusual but progressive transformation of the web of this particular specimen. A probable explanation for this is a consistent and creative attempt by the spider to make a normally short-lived we‎b last longer. As parts of the web fail, the spider reinforces the underlying foundation threads. This action invariably leads to formation of a new or different web design every time. Now the evolution of the patterns or design over time is a thing of interest. Could web patterns resembling certain alphabets be an indication of a smart web-weaver? Or perhaps a mathematically-inclined arachnid, since the characters are popular algebraic cliches?In any case, here is a challenge posed by an insect. A riddle. A picture puzzle. It is a reminder of one of such general mathematics problems with the unforgettable appendage delivering the urgent request 'find x'. Once again, we find x. And why too.
Noticed this spider's web just as I was leaving my house. The sunlight was hitting it in such a way that only half-of it was readily visible and the spider silk was bending the light to give it a rainbow effect just on the strands of webbing.
It was a matter of luck and timing as any earlier or later, the light would not have bounced off it in the right way to cause this effect.
Dozens of spider webs were present along the American River. The fog added some moisture to the web highlighting the structure as it was illuminated in the morning light.
Still learning how to use the Olympus PL3, so far it has great 'out-of-camera' results. I'm impressed how well it holds up at iso 1600. It's a great camera for travel. In my case it goes running with me along the river trail to catch these kind of opportunities.
Garden spiders are the most common orb web spider in the UK often found in gardens, giving them their name! They are greyish-brown with a white cross on their back and spin their famous spiral webs! They sit in the middle of the web waiting to feel the vibrations of a struggling insect in the sticky threads of its web.