Captured in 2009, I spent some interesting times shooting Garden Spiders around my rural Missouri home. At one time, I counted 6 of these beautiful orb spiders that were staking claim to part of my greenhouse, all at once. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Garden Spider, busy encasing a grasshopper inside a silky cocoon:
And this interesting shot of the finished “seal-a-meal”, which I’ve titled “Just Hanging Around on the Web”:
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 1D Mark 2 camera body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod, with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/11 and f/10
- Shutter 1/1600 sec. and 1/100 sec.