Spring Spider

THE BLOG IS BACK!!!

Been a little preoccupied over the past few months and have hardly posted anything here but I am now back, camera in hand and have some catching up to do.

Can't believe we're almost 3 months in to 2013 already and spring is meant to be happening although the recent weather seems to have other ideas!

Anyway, I found this little critter on a house plant and he (or she!) kindly posed for some shots. Used the Macro Lens Adapters to take these.





As usual, click on the images to enlarge

Spider Food

Taken in my garden yesterday evening - A quick catch of a spider tucking in to an unfortunate bug that managed to get itself caught up in the web.

Baby Spiders Again

I posted last year here about baby spiders in my garden.

Well, a year has passed and another batch have arrived. With the help of the macro light I was able to get these shots.

A view of the gate to give some perspective on how small the spiders were


Closer


Closer still

Spider Macro

Sorting through some old files I came across this spider macro which I took last summer, just after getting the 450D.

Money permitting, I would really like to get hold of a macro lens for my DSLR. I shall add that to my wish list!

Bye Bye Mr Fly

After seeing this post over at novemberfive.co.uk, I was reminded of a picture that I took the other day.

The spider is going in for the kill. Unfortunately there was so much debris in the web that this didn't turn out as well as it could have. With the naked eye, you could actually see the fangs sinking in to the fly!


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Spiders Spiders Everywhere!

There seems to be a lot of spiders springing to life in my garden at the moment. I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be liquid moving but at a second glance realised that it was ball / mass of young spiders caught but the breeze and becoming detached from each other cascading with their newly found web spinning skills.

I took a couple of shots of one group that had detached itself from the rest. All I had to hand was my camera phone so not as clear as they could have been.