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Detail of facade of Grosvenor House, New Street, Birmingham. Designed by architects Cotton, Ballard and Blow and completed in 1954.
Double exposure
Praktica L
CZJ Tessar (50mm, f/2.8) + Vivitar 3x teleconverter
Fomapan 400 (@800, developed in ID-11 "stock")
A pair of decaying logs, one in the sun and the other in shade, launch a zigzag footpath up the pine and oak-studded hillside above the Miller Canyon trail.
Camera: Nikon FM (1977-1982, with Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 lens).
Film: 35mm 100 ISO Arista.edu Ultra, developed in Arista Liquid Developer for 6:45 minutes @ 70 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.
Nur wer sein Ziel kennt, findet den Weg. Only the one who knows his goal will find the path.
Lao-Tse
A long exposure of the groynes at Caister-on-Sea.
Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 10-22mm lens, 0.6ND Grad and Big Stopper filters, exposure: 3mins @f/9.0
One common name for this spider is "Writing Spider", and it's easy to see why. This one is a juvenile with a mess of "writing", but even when they're adults, you'll find a line of zigzag down the middle. You can see from this shot to the next that different genera of spiders create different forms of stabilimenta in their webs. This one reflects UV light, and that leads to theories that the purpose is to attract prey. Many flowers have markings visible only in the ultraviolet spectrum which act as "runway signals" for insects, to guide them in for pollination. The theory goes that perhaps these act in a similar way, fooling insects into thinking this is an attractive flower.
Another theory suggests that, rather than attracting prey, the stabilimentum is there to disguise the spider and protect it from predators, or make it look larger than it is and dissuade them that way. I have to say, looking at this one, the spacing of the zigzag and that of the rings on the spider's legs certainly lend to the spider disappearing into the pattern.
21 Arachtober 2020 2/2
Yellow Garden Spider, Argiope aurantia
Soldier's Delight NEA, Baltimore Co, MD
26 July 2020
Ancien volcan isolé Adrar Hedjrine, Adrar Heggerin, Adrar Hegrin ou Adrar Hegrine (2051m) dans le Hoggar algérien.
D'après diapositive.
Black & Yellow Argiopes, or Yellow Garden Spider, usually lives at the edge of a forest, near grass. Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.