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simplydivinephotography.com - Susan M. Reynolds Contact Susan M. Reynolds Susan M. Reynolds's Gallery |
I know the square post has a lot of issues such as noise and over-sharpening, but while my spiderman husband went out on his weekly mission to kill spiders at night, I asked him to wait so I could get some photos for the challenge. He told me he had seen webs of some big Black Widows and one had three big egg balls in her web the size of sugar cubes!
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Jeff E Jensen |
Way to go Susan! These are really cool.
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Teresa H. Hunt |
Ewwww!!! You are much braver than I Susan! These are great! I'm sure the noise is from the sever crop. I like the second de-noise shot better than the first.
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- Michael Kelly Contact Michael Kelly Michael Kelly's Gallery |
I think they are pretty neat entries Susan. Black Widows are not my favorites and I don't like to get close either as they are so ugly. I like how you captured the red hour glass. I think the problem is that they are just being pushed beyond the pixel count due to the crop. The rest looks pretty good for how far you pushed it.
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- Rita K. Connell Contact Rita K. Connell Rita K. Connell's Gallery |
susan I am so proud of you....You are way braver than I would have been remember Mine was dead...LOL I think theses all are great I to like that fact that you got the red hour glass So I take it you have alot of black widows around your house thats just plain scarey.....creepy....Yikes....!!!
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simplydivinephotography.com - Susan M. Reynolds Contact Susan M. Reynolds Susan M. Reynolds's Gallery |
Oh I was scared alright, but Matt was right there with the light and the can of wasp spray to save me if they ran towards me instead of away from me! It was freaky even trying to edit them. And Yes we do...there all around the patio, the shed where all my fabric is in bins...and you wonder why it's not sorted yet???? lol and out by the pool, My husband has this strange fascination with them Shining a light on them and spraying them with wasp spray when they run....It's so funny because the first time I met him as a teenager was at my church during a volleyball youth fun night. We were playing in the shell of a new brick building. The ball went out the window because the stained glass hadn't been put in the big windows yet...Matt was a showing off for all the girls and he jumped into the window frame hanging on there and looked just like Spiderman so that everyone started calling him Spiderman then shortened it to MattMan then William was WillMan and Josh became J-Man when he started dating Charlotte. I'm sure we have been saved from sure-fire bites from Black Widows because of his diligence in hunting them down in the dark of the night like the grim reaper. So, I've got my very own Super-Hero...My very own Spiderman, only Matt's a lot better looking! :)
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Debbie E. Payne |
I love the last one, Susan. I'm sure you would have won a 1st place in the 8-Legged Critter contest if you lived here in Colorado and frequented the Butterfly Pavilion. Great job and such a brave woman!! I like the diagonal line down the middle of the photo. Very striking! And the eye is drawn to red mark on the belly.
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simplydivinephotography.com - Susan M. Reynolds Contact Susan M. Reynolds Susan M. Reynolds's Gallery |
One thing I am not...and that is brave my phellos...not brave at all, just taking baby steps to learn true courage and bravery by making myself do thing I'm afraid to do and a lot of times I do chicken out before I actually do them :)
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Dale Hardin |
You show real dedication and courage Susan. I like your last post a bit more because is separates the nasty girl from her background. A very cool background by the way with it's nice diagonal element and complimenting colors. Well done.
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simplydivinephotography.com - Susan M. Reynolds Contact Susan M. Reynolds Susan M. Reynolds's Gallery |
That last post is the crop from the one above it titled "Why are they always upside down" Dale...I made sure the diagonal was point to point and perfectly centered with a close crop, a rotate and a flippity-doo-dah-day, just for you!
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Dale Hardin |
After all that work and creativity, it's a good thing I noticed, Huh??! :o)
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Carla Capra Anderson |
Oh Susan, you are a brave one out at night trying to capture these deadly spiders. Eeeek, I'd be running for cover, lol. All kidding aside, these are all great images. I like what you've done with your last edit. She fairly jumps out of the image.
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Aimee C. Eisaman |
YOu may not think you are brave, but let me tell you I would not be caught anywhere near one of these things. I don't have an issue with spiders in general, but anything that has a deadly bite is off limits! I'm shocked at how good a shot you got with how you said you were doing it. And their webs look so shabby. Around here most spiders have those perfect round looking webs. O I don't think I could live there! I'd be worried and up all night thinking a black widow would come bite me. Thanks for sharing these and the stories....love good stories! :~)
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simplydivinephotography.com - Susan M. Reynolds Contact Susan M. Reynolds Susan M. Reynolds's Gallery |
Thanks to all and yes Dale I'm glad you noticed :) Aimee, the webs of black widows are tough and shiny. A lot harder to break than normal spider webs and yes they are messy just strings going every which way and I dearly want a bit round circular one. My daughter has been wanting one like that with dew drops on and a spider like Charlotte's Web she red as a child...thinks she need a photo of it to go with her name but darned if I can find one around my yard...don't know where to look in my area for webs like that or what kind of spiders make them. Checked out our blackberry bushes in the "back-back" yard but now big round webs with black yellow and white spiders like in the blackberry bushes we picked from up in the hills as kids. bummer ~ Thank you all for your comments :)
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