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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 5… and this is where things start to get weird…

Posted on September 4, 2019 by pouringmyartout

So, you know how I have been going out in the yard and spraying spider webs with a mister bottle to make fake dew, in order to get that one perfect photo of sunlight turning all the little drops to … Continue reading →

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 4… once again with special super-close-up-cropped portions of each photos below the original photo!!!

Posted on September 1, 2019 by pouringmyartout

Original. ZOOOOOM! I like that there are smaller strands between the main strands. Is there another, smaller spider sharing the web, or can this one make two sizes of web??? Original photo. ZAP! I like the way that order is … Continue reading →

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 3…

Posted on August 27, 2019 by pouringmyartout

I decided to take some of the less exciting pictures I took and crop them way down to the good parts. Other than that… I guess this post doesn’t need much explaining. I annoyed some spiders… By spraying some water… … Continue reading →

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 2… now with bonus ‘super-cropped-down-extra-close-up’ versions of each photo!!!

Posted on August 16, 2019 by pouringmyartout

There is one of the photos of the orb webs I took, after gently spraying them with water to simulate dew drops. One advantage of my digital camera is that it saves photos at a very large size… like 72 … Continue reading →

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Oh come on, Arthur, more pictures of wet spider webs, seriously???… part 1…

Posted on August 15, 2019 by pouringmyartout

Yes, it was a foggy, misty morning here in San Diego, and the orb web-spinning garden spiders are getting bigger, so I took some photos. Once again, nature let me down with the dew/mist factor, so I broke out my … Continue reading →

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More experiments with ‘wet web photography’…

Posted on July 29, 2019 by pouringmyartout

I was out in the yard this morning, annoying my spider relatives again, using my mist spraying bottle to put fake dew on their little homes. This time, I played with an array of options, using all three macro lenses, … Continue reading →

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Epic web photo failure!!!

Posted on July 28, 2019 by pouringmyartout

All I wanted to do was get a good picture of this garden spider and her orb web with my phone at work the other night. I tried it with the flash too, and ended up with a ghost spider. … Continue reading →

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I met this lovely lady at work the other night…

Posted on July 22, 2019 by pouringmyartout

I think the tarantula was less scary, even though it was much bigger.

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More ‘wet webs’… and yes, that might be a dog hair stuck to that web, over on the left…

Posted on July 18, 2019 by pouringmyartout

I had fun taking some photos of those funnel-web spider webs on that misty morning when they were covered with little drops. And I said that when the big garden spiders showed up, I would do the same thing. But … Continue reading →

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So, yeah, I almost stepped on that last night at work… in the dark…

Posted on June 27, 2019 by pouringmyartout

That thing is bigger than my hand… and I have big hands… unlike someone I could mention… HA! Before that happened, it was a lovely sunset. Later, I walked outside, into a dimly lit area behind one of the buildings … Continue reading →

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