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Wet webs and digital magic… part 2…

Posted on September 12, 2019 by pouringmyartout

So, I have all those photos I took where I sprayed a mist of water on some spider webs, to try to get a shot of the sun lighting the drops up like little jewels of morning dew. But maybe … Continue reading →

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Wet webs and digital magic… part 1…

Posted on September 12, 2019 by pouringmyartout

Hey, if I have to explain it, you haven’t been paying attention.

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Just clearing some photos off my phone… part 4… a matter of life and death, and a new friend…

Posted on September 9, 2019 by pouringmyartout

I was doing one of my patrols the other night, and I saw this preying mantis stuck in the orb web of a garden spider. Her back legs and wings were caught in the web, but her forearms were free. … Continue reading →

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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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