Spider in the morning

[John Geerts]

Those sunny early mornings, strong coffee, opening the back-door and spotting a busy spider...

D700 - CV90 F/3.5 wide open

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Nice background and the web comes out well thanks to the backlight.

Did you use the auxiliary close-up lens on the 90 Lanthar?

[John Geerts]

Thanks Bjørn.  Yes I tested it a few times, it's easy to implement on the lens.

Not sure if it really improves image-quality (compared to normal use of the lens). It affected DOF too much is my early impression. Need to use it on much more occasions to have a clear verdict.

Here is a green fly at a Sorbus  at F/8

[John Geerts]

The spider revisited, on a cloudy morning after a night of rain.   

BTW The July-spider was without the close-up lens, just cropped.

This one is uncropped just resized.
Df - Nikkor 80mm at F/8

[Jacques Pochoy]

Great shots of those spiders in their "element" (the web with morning dew)... :-)

[Jakov Minić]

John, the spider man 
Nice shots!

[John Geerts]

haha

Thanks Jakov and Jacques. I adore spiders but because of daughter's arachnophobia I have to act as exterminator. I had a little hope she would grow over it, but now at 22, all hope is gone 

[HCS]

Great stuff.

The bg in the last shot seems like hortensia to me. Typical environment, at least in Dutch gardens 

[Frank Fremerey]

One your arachnoid friends made herself at home in our staircase. Wife and daughter were not very happy, so I had to take a photo first...

[John Geerts]

Nice one.  That was just before you took the vacuum cleaner? 

Hans: Thanks.   I do have a white Hortensia (it was a gift), but it's in the ground. The spider was at 2,50 meter and had to take a chair to reach it. Bokeh are just details of the green garden with glimpses of the Sorbus and some sky.

[Frank Fremerey]

Nice one.  That was just before you took the vacuum cleaner? 

Hans: Thanks.   I do have a white Hortensia (it was a gift), but it's in the ground. The spider was at 2,50 meter and had to take a chair to reach it. Bokeh are just details of the green garden with glimpses of the Sorbus and some sky.

I like spiders I do not touch them except they sit under a cupboard but this is collateral.

usually my wife captures them with a glass and a postcard and throws them out in the garden.

this guy went public. We have 4 parties in the house one for every storey. 3 or for people per party

one can get lost if one is a spider....