Argiope aurantia, the Black & Yellow Garden Spider, sharing her web with a tiny companion—top center at the intersection of the grey & green stems. Hoping for guidance from the Arachnophiles on that one.
The web is a few feet above White Lake, in Cullinan Park, Sugar Land, TX. I took the shot with a Leica on a monopod extended well off the boardwalk, controlled by an iPhone. Got the monopod yesterday and the idea this morning. First shot I’ve posted with remote control. 132mm focal length is 360mm equivalent,
Happy Arachtober!
Week 40/52
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Experimenting with Post Focus on the C-Lux. Press the button and a suite of shots sweep through many focal distances. Then select &/or stack. In this case, the web was vibrating in the wind, but still some of the images caught the tiny spider—1cm leg span—and parts of the web.
Because Post Focus uses 4K video, the image size is a little smaller, the crop factor a little bigger, and the effective focal length correspondingly bigger. More useful than I first suspected.
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Our Golden Orb Weaver from yesterday, dorsal side.
Cullinana Park, Sugar Land
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Golden Orb Weaver. Females are enormous--the span of a hand, and a thorax as big as a thumb. (The Key Master is not so fearsome.)
I got several poses by this gal, which will follow.
Cullinan Park, Sugar Land. Thanks to the Zinns for cueing me in to this hidden gem!
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Paused to take an abstract photo of these two leaves lying on the path. Didn’t notice the spider until I uploaded it.
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