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Spider (caution its a big one)
Started September 19, 2009 @ 6:05am by MCampbell
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MCampbell
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| Spider (caution its a big one) | September 19, 2009 @ 6:05am | 
Another view:
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JPetty
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| September 19, 2009 @ 8:41am | It's an orb spider and they are so very, very shy. How did you get so close? If I try to get that close, I invariably end up touching the web; and then they are gone. Nice job!
Janet
Go ahead and play with the images. I would ask that when you post them on other sites (such as Flikr, Photobucket, etc.) that you credit my photography. I would do the same for you! Other than that, I'm E Z T D B W. |
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MCampbell
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| September 19, 2009 @ 9:11am | It stayed for the longest time. I thought it was dead because it absolutely did not move. I went back into the house to get the tripod, it was still there when I returned. I took these shots then I went back into the house to get the reflector.
When I was setting up I brushed the web with the reflector and it took off like a shot. (I did not know they were that quick) It slipped behind a crack in a fence post and has not been seen since but there is a very beautiful, fully repaired web this morning where the spider used to be.
Nice thing about the 100 mm macro on a cropped frame camera (effective 160mm) you don't have to get exactly right in their faces but lesson learned you still have to be careful and not carelessly crash right into their home while setting up your equipment.
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Last Edit: September 19, 2009 @ 9:12am by MCampbell | |
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RickT
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| September 19, 2009 @ 10:34am | She looks like a member of the Araneus genus. Since the web is being maintained, she's hiding nearby. Look at the center of the web for a fine strand or two of silk that lead off at a slight angle toward the outside margin of the web. Follow that strand up (it's usually up) to where it ducks under a ledge or a leaf. Look closely and you should find your spider, who will be monitoring this trip-wire with a leg. For an example, see this picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21714994@N00/3859908049/sizes/o/
I have since found others hiding even further away from the web proper, tucked up under the eaves, by following the trip-wire silk. Or go out an hour or two after dark, when they usually return to sit in the center of the web. Happy hunting.
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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Flo
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| September 19, 2009 @ 11:55am | I tried all last summer to photograph one of these spiders that had set up her home behind our electric meter box hanging on the house wall. Trouble is, each time I'd go outside - the box is about 2 feet from the back door - she'd scoot and hide behind the box.
Michael, perhaps your spider was feeling chilly and therefore didn't move. Or perhaps she just wanted to bask in the light of your radiant personality! 
Whichever, you can count yourself extremely fortunate to have captured such nice portraits.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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