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This web belongs (belonged) to a Spiny Orb Weaver spider. I say belonged because after a couple of weeks I finally reached a day where I forgot to duck and that was the end of that one! Happy to say she did rebuild ... and she IS in the middle in the shot, the camera just didn't want to focus on her. :)
Yesterday morning I noticed this smallish web in the garden. I set up the camera above the web, and placed the flash below. The resulting colors were a surprise - it looked like diffraction of some kind was going on. On the web (haha) I found that "The thin linear threads of spider webs occasionally act as optical slits, decomposing white light by diffraction. The resulting colors aren't as pure as those of refraction phenomena, as in a rainbow or in an ice halo....The diameter of the minute water droplets composing mid-level clouds is similar to the diameter of spider web threads -- a few microns or even less." epod.usra.edu/blog/2005/01/spider-web-diffraction.html
Just regret not having my macro lens with me, wet by the morning dew this web looked as if it were adorned by pearl beads. Enlarge the picture to see better detail.
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps
It's that time of year when we sometimes get bright cool mornings with veils of mist over the valleys and cobwebs across the dewy grass. And some trees are showing the first signs of turning autumn gold. Many will argue this is the prettiest time of the year to be out and about.
Doug Harrop Photography • February 20, 1984
UP 834, 873, and 729 pull the Park City Local into Taggart, Utah.
The spider seems to have woven a new web outside our kitchen window. The double-paned window had been cleaned inside, but not outside. (The blurry dark vertical lines are the balusters supporting the railing around the deck.)
At the moment that I snapped this, the wind was causing the web to dance vigorously. When I looked at the image on the computer, I was surprised that the filaments had as much definition as they do.
As the morn sun shone
on the spider's soft misty web
a hue prism did show...
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