Friday, September 21, 2007

I has a spider.

It lives on the front porch and comes out at night to spin a huge beautiful orb-type web. Back in bed (whereever that is) by the time I leave for work.

The web:



Close-up:



I'm saying about two inches long from toe to toe, if spiders had toes. Hell, they might for all I know.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice shots. What kind of macro lens did you use?

10:25 AM  
Blogger Austin said...

Thanks, anonymous!

None, actually. I took them with an old, semi-functional Olympus digital camera and just got as close as I could and still focus, then snapped it with the 'still life' setting and flash, then cropped. The close-up shot isn't reduced at all, that's actual pixels from the resulting jpeg. The photo of the web was taken from a little further back. There was a lot of trial and error involved.

6:06 AM  

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