A well stacked lady and her web

[JBW]

Orb Weavers create marvelously complex and strong webs. Still and all the slightest breeze or tremor and they vibrate like harp strings. To capture twelve shots with no tremor is remarkably lucky. Even luckier when you realize that all eight of the Orb Weavers legs and both mandibles also remained rock steady.

Sony Alpha a68 ~ Tamron 90mm 272E Macro Lens ~ ISO 100 ~ Shutter Speed 1/1.6s ~ F/9 to F/16 ~ Exposure Compensation 0.0 ~ Natural Light

Shot in our garden/temple somewhere in the Philippines

Brian

[Rufus]

Well done Brian. It is a vey fine image.

David

[JBW]

Well done Brian. It is a vey fine image.

David

If you put it into lytebox and look in the bottom left hand corner you will see two B's. There shoulkd only be one. Not at all sure how that happened.

[Donald]

Excellent image. Very well done. To be nit-picky, a bit more top and bottom so it's legs were not cut off might be wise, but otherwise a superb image.

[JBW]

Excellent image. Very well done. To be nit-picky, a bit more top and bottom so it's legs were not cut off might be wise, but otherwise a superb image.

She's still there and nit-picky is needed in critiquing.

[Round Tuit]

Your photography is remarkable. Your math???

[JBW]

Your photography is remarkable. Your math???

Math isn't the problem... observing is.

[Round Tuit]

Math isn't the problem... observing is.

The only reason that I counted the legs is because three years ago I shot this spider which is also missing a leg. Since then, I have discovered that it is not all that unusual.



The picture, of course, is nowhere near as good as yours.

[JBW]

you had a much tougher bg

[Round Tuit]

you had a much tougher bg

The backlit web was problematic.