Spider

My parents have an awsome vernader. You can find so much to photograph with out even taking a step off of it. A spider living on their verander is my new project. Every evening she comes out, spins her web and in the morning, she eats her web and goes into hiding. The next evening she comes out again and builds her web all over again. And so the cycle keeps going every night. And she even alternates where she places the web. One night it will be high up in the corner, the next - low and close to the railing. She seems to swop these two positions.

Tonight I got my act together and actually photographed her. I didnt get much as a big storm came over, and then it became very difficult. With the wind blowing it became to hard to focus on her ( I was using manual focus and a very shallow depth of field). So i packed up that shoot but I will be out tomorrow again to get some more shots.

But I got four relatively good shots. Shooting against the night sky (black at this point) made a great backdrop to highlight her. I did use my flash as she was too low from the spot light to create rim light. I am hoping that tomorrow she will be under the spot light. It will mean a contraption of ladders and tables and tripods to get close with the macro lens but i think it will be worth it.