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After a heavy fog the spider webs were covered in dew. The doomed insect looks like a pendant on a diamond necklace.
This is where I could have used a good macro lens. I was using my telephoto lens and having a hard time with focusing. Both auto and manual.
"Why spiders? Why can't it be 'follow the butterflies'?!"
- Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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
Very cold, very grey and very foggy today. On the plus side it meant that all the spider webs looked ike they'd been made out of tiny jewels and gave me a reason to have another play with my Christmas present.
However, deliberately waiting until it was dark to try and get a good contrast with the background may not have been the best idea for a first attempt. I/ the camera struggled to find the web to focus on, so they were all a bit blurry -this is the best of a bad job I'm afraid. Still, gives me more to work on.
The eldest came out of nursery super bouncy as they'd given her a card and a magic fairy wand as it was her birthday yesterday. Or maybe it was because I sent her in with a large stash of cupcakes for everyone! The three of us spent the afternoon playing with the Hama beads she got given. Something I've never used before and having had to tidy up the youngest's over enthusiastic playing with them something I think I may try and do with the eldest when he's engrossed in something else.
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.
... or mistress. Happy Arachtober!
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Macro Monday ...... Theme " In a Row " HMM
The beads of dew on a spider's web,hanging from the wing mirror of the car.
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( Explored 3/10/16 )
This was one of those mornings where we saw lots of these tiny webs in the field - they're colorfully quite spectacular in the morning sun -