She's a beaut - do we know her name?
I think it's Nephila plumipes, the Coastal Golden Orb Weaver. Quite common around here, and it makes spectacular communal webs that could snare a small aircraft.
Cheers, David
ann the unarachnophobe
Rob Studdert wrote:
Hi Team,
Unfortunately I have been a little too busy lately to review or submit PESO/PAWs however I was out for a short walk yesterday and made a few quick snaps so I thought I'd put one up. The subject really needed a macro lens but I only had the *ist D and 77mm LTD with me so I cranked the 77 out to min focus and moved in on the subject.
The sky was overcast (with some light drizzle which didn't affect the *ist D in the slightest) and the wind was gusting so I did my best to make some decent HH shots at ISO 400 f4.5 1/400th between gusts, out of the five exposure this one was the best.
The image has been cropped by about 30% as the subjects were still a little small in the frame. Don't check the link if you are Arachnophobic :-)
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP0448.jpg (~200kB)
Comments, criticisms or outright bagging over the use of such crap equipment welcome.
Cheers,
Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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