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These were captured hand-held in the little wood across the road using a Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and two Kenko 2X teleconverters on a Sony A7ii, with a Venus Optics KX800 twin flash.
The raw files were processed with DXO PhotoLab, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz DeNoise AI.
There are 1300 pixel high versions of these images in this album at Flickr.
Like most of what I'm seeing at the moment these subjects were quite small.
This one was blowing around madly in the breeze above the leaf litter, in and out of the frame, twisting and turning. I assumed it was doomed, caught up on a spider's silk line, frantically trying to escape.
#1
1855 18 2020_12_24 DSC08964_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
1855 19 2020_12_24 DSC08965_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
1855 21 2020_12_24 DSC08973_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
However, looking at it from the side I'm not so sure it was trapped on the line because the legs seem to have changed position relative to the line rather than being stuck in place. Perhaps it was keeping itself out of the way up there in mid air; I have seen other small animals which can traverse spider silk without getting caught up in it. Still, it seems like a dangerous place to be doing that as presumably there was a spider close by. I don't know. Perhaps it was trapped. That seems more likely I suppose.
#4
1855 23 2020_12_24 DSC08979_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
1855 24 2020_12_24 DSC08982_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
These two suddenly flew in, and stuck around for 90 seconds or so, for most of that time in close variations of the first pose, and then for less than 10 seconds moving around the second pose. I wish I could have got them both in focus in the last one - I had just one chance for a grab shot with them there before they dropped off the leaf stem and disappeared.
#6
1855 36 2020_12_24 DSC09021_PLab4 LR 1300h-2 DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7
1855 30 2020_12_24 DSC09025_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
1855 32 2020_12_24 DSC09026_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
The raw files were processed with DXO PhotoLab, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz DeNoise AI.
There are 1300 pixel high versions of these images in this album at Flickr.
Like most of what I'm seeing at the moment these subjects were quite small.
This one was blowing around madly in the breeze above the leaf litter, in and out of the frame, twisting and turning. I assumed it was doomed, caught up on a spider's silk line, frantically trying to escape.
#1
1855 18 2020_12_24 DSC08964_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
1855 19 2020_12_24 DSC08965_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
1855 21 2020_12_24 DSC08973_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
However, looking at it from the side I'm not so sure it was trapped on the line because the legs seem to have changed position relative to the line rather than being stuck in place. Perhaps it was keeping itself out of the way up there in mid air; I have seen other small animals which can traverse spider silk without getting caught up in it. Still, it seems like a dangerous place to be doing that as presumably there was a spider close by. I don't know. Perhaps it was trapped. That seems more likely I suppose.
#4
1855 23 2020_12_24 DSC08979_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
1855 24 2020_12_24 DSC08982_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
These two suddenly flew in, and stuck around for 90 seconds or so, for most of that time in close variations of the first pose, and then for less than 10 seconds moving around the second pose. I wish I could have got them both in focus in the last one - I had just one chance for a grab shot with them there before they dropped off the leaf stem and disappeared.
#6
1855 36 2020_12_24 DSC09021_PLab4 LR 1300h-2 DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7
1855 30 2020_12_24 DSC09025_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
1855 32 2020_12_24 DSC09026_PLab4 LR 1300h DNAIcMedHi by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
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