An amateur photographer’s personal journey
Here is an unexpected shot… all I intended was to take a photograph of the spider on the buttercup, when in flew an unexpected visitor, the spider’s next victim. Notice how the spider hangs his victims from silk threads - ready to be eaten at a later time.
See also :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus
This Dog Rose was neatly folded (resembling an orchid). It’s creator, a crab spider, lay in wait inside.
Crab spiders often catch large insects such as bees. It seems this fellow was on his hors d’oeuvre. The fly in its jaws was so small that I didn’t notice it whan I took the shot.
These brightly coloured little spiders are found amongst flowers and the larger females (typically white) have the ability of slowly changing colour from white to pale green or yellow and back again depending on the flowers on which they find themselves! The red markings on the abdomen can also change in size or even disappear. The males are darker and smaller.
This shot is one of my favourites. It was taken just as the sun was setting in the “Bois de Saint-Cucufa” near Paris. The last of the sun’s rays making the spider stand-out against the background.
The photograph below was taken in very low light using at a very high ISO setting (hence the graininess). The smaller male spider is handing his sperm sac to the female.
