Brackettville Web Design

I've been a bit of a Blog Hog lately. I can't help it, I just LOVE photography!

My sister in law asked me last time what my light source was. My answer went something like, "Uh... " I paid attention to what I was doing this time. No flash. The flood light over the porch illuminates the web from above and a bit to the side. The wind was gusting a bit tonight here in Brackettville and most of my web shots blurred, dangit. But I think I still got a few that were sharp and clear enough. The one who created this now has a friend. We call them Ellen and Sukeena and we call their web project Rose Red because they never stop building. We watch them nightly. We are pretty sure these web designers are Orb Weavers.

Orb Weaver Spider

Brackettville Web design

I was trying to shoot a very swollen spider building her web under the light of the full moon. I took over 40 shots and they were all crap. I cropped her and the moon out of this one, I kind of liked the way the web looked... the center looks like a shot of a galaxy (maybe a disintegrating galaxy), the outer web with its crazy angles, well, I look forward to shooting spider webs again. I've never snapped one I wasn't embarrassed to show anyone before. This makes me eager to do much better with webs the next time!