22nd September 2011
We have an orb weaver spider in residence on the other side of our bedroom window...
This is a wonderful short BBC Wildlife video of an orb weaver spider spinning her web... Absolutely worth watching the beauty of the process...
Although I am a bit nervous around spiders... This morning when I opened the curtains, she was busy rebuilding part of her web... and I could not fail but to be amazed at how she was working...
My orb weaver spider has beautiful striped legs... I often see these spiders in the garden in Autumn...
I pretty much tried every lens that I own to take these photographs... and fervently wishing that I had a macro lens... In the end I had most success using the AF-S Nikkor 35 mm prime lens with the Canon 52mm close-up lens 500D attached.
Soon after taking these photographs, having finished her work, she vacated her web and headed off to the corner of the window frame to snooze...
2 comments:
Great shots of this spider!
I did it again, posted my comment in the wrong place. Sorry about that, Nikki!
Are they dangerous? I have one outside my kitchen window facing the back yard in New Jersey.
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