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Bokeh Thursday: Silvery Water Beads on Roscoe's Web!

Bokeh Thursday: Silvery Water Beads on Roscoe's Web!
2 more pictures in notes above!

I originally planned to take this pictures with Portia, the beautiful Golden Orbweaver who lives next to our porch, but the pictures didn't even come close to turning out. Portia wasn't impressed by me spraying misty water on her and I didn't want to frighten her so I went inside to think of what to do. HELLO? ROSCOE'S WEB! Every day, Roscoe hangs out up in the corner of her nook, but the beautiful orb web she built the night before is usually still intact during the day. How perfect. No spider to disturb! I sprayed the web with water and grabbed the camera with my Twin-Lite flash attachment in place and took a bunch of pictures! It was really, REALLY windy, so even though I was using a flash, I had problems with blur in many pictures. I'd wait for the web to be still and take pictures but at macro scale, even a breeze will make the subject move enough to be blurry. However, I did get a few nice ones, including this one! :)

Sami Serola (inactive), Wierd Folkersma, , and 11 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Pam J
Pam J club
What can I say.....

Rosco in the sky with diamonds............

Breathtaking.............
10 years ago.
 Clickity Click
Clickity Click
Oh this is great ... love the way the droplets seem to be networking along the web!! I've never thought to spray the web with water , duh, will have to give that a try sometime. :))
10 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
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Very nice shot.
10 years ago.
 Dean Morley (mostly off)
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Fantastic work Janet! My favourite is the one with the amber colour background. Have a lovely weekend. :-)
10 years ago.
 Shuttering Yukon
Shuttering Yukon
oh I missed this somehow...what a beautiful string of diamonds.. I was looking at and thinking how glad I was the owner was not home, then I read your decsription.... you named your spiders... sheesh, I put them in the stock pot! (I also use a water bottle to get them wet)
10 years ago.
 H C
H C
Beautiful shot.
10 years ago.
 Wierd Folkersma
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This one I like the most, maybe because of the black background.
10 years ago.

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