orb weaver spider

[rdking647]

found this lady hanging out in the front yard.
she was happy to pose for a few pictures

[jonno99]

1. As long as she stays out of the house and doesn't string her web at face level

in my walkway - I'm good!

[rdking647]

2. shes in the bushes next to my entryway so shes out of the way

if i have a chance,im going to go out later today and try and get closer.

[jonno99]

3. Have fun! (maybe bring her a treat - perhaps that annoying fly who got in the house :)

[jonno99]

4. I just noticed this is the Photgraphy group (sorry - I'm a little slow), and I was

immediately taken back to my service days - stationed in Okinawa, Japan. On my first tour I bought a Nikon A1 and went crazy with it. I've got some cool (banana?) spider pics buried somewhere in my photo albums.

I've gotta dig those out - thanks for the memory bump!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Share us the other side, if you can.

We have them all over the place here, one loves to gradually web over my slider door during the summer, then she leaves her egg case up in the corner of the doorway in the fall. So I get a nice VERY closeup of her thru the glass all summer long. She is also BIG.
When the sun shines just so , the web is very visibly golden.

[rdking647]

6. a little closer

switched cameras.
put some extension tubes on a macro lens and switched to a crop sensor camera

[rdking647]

7. last 2 from today

i couldnt get nearly as close on teh other side because of where she is located. but i also got her profile




these are all taken with a tamron 180 macro (nikon version) with either my nikon d600 or my sony a6000 using a metabones adapter