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I found this on a walk early Sunday morning. Of course I wasn't carrying my camera but I wasn't that far from home so I practically ran back , got the camera out of the bag, changed the lens and I was back out the door and off to capture this. I knew the sun was warning and that from what I have seen is that the fine early morning mist starts clumping together from the sun warming the watery mist so I was taking pictures fast from every possible angle. I stood back on the street and wanted to take a look to see if I got anything that was savable.

I turned the camera on to show what I had taken and I got the error message that no data storage card was found. I looked and realized that I left the data card in the reader while downloading all the pictures I had taken the day before. So I ran back to my house and grabbed the card and was able to still get this much of web before the sun changed it to dry threads that would be virtually invisible.

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Posted by San Diego Real Estate Voice authored by William Johnson on 10/25/2009 11:56 AM

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34 Comments on San Diego Real Estate PhotoBlog- The Webs We Weave

OCT

William - am amzing photo! But you could have left out the spider IMO. Not a fan at all. LOL

Jeff

Good Morning Jeff, I did ask her to leave but she paid no mind to me. Spiders are not my favorite either but they do nice detail work.

William - I've tried to take pictures of webs, but have not captured them as well as this one of your's. That looks to be a really mean spider. "Oh what tangled webs we weave, when at first we practice to deceive."

William,

It's easy to see the fascination with "Charlot's Web," but I'd just as soon pass on spiders and snakes!

Bill

Great picture of a web- you could have come here to North Carolina and gotten hundreds of pictures. Spiders are everywhere this year!

Wow, nice picture William! Do you mind if I use the picture in a future blog?

Love the pic.

I snapped a shot of a spider web yesterday at the barn.

Mine's not nearly as pretty as yours.

William, in reference to your photo...

Many years back I lived in Garland Texas. At the side of my lovely "Mr. Rogers neighborhood" home, I had an intricate web such as this one with a magnificent female laying her eggs. I watched her for many, many days build and prepare for her children. I did not have the heart to disturb her...I have a strange "I can't hurt it" personality. I was growing proud of her.

I got home one day and my 14 year old son stood proudly at the front door with his b-b gun to his side. I took care of us mom. Let me show you what I shot!

I won't go into any detail as I can tell you just how torn I was. A child, the love of my life, proudly took credit for saving me...I, at the same time felt horrible about the spider's demise. How sad yet what a step it was to manhood.

lol, and thanks for the fantastic photo.

Deb~

Hi Myrl, I found this this morning out walking. I went back and brought the camera and started taking all these photos. Then I wanted see what I captured. Nothing, I forgot to put the storage card back in the camera. Dah. Went back home, got the storage card and then the light was getting such that I was not sure I was even going to it. The earlier morning version of this was actually amazing. The moisture was very even like a mist. In this photo the moisture was already forming beads.

I did stop traffic a few times. With me taking so many pictures early, people were stopping to look at what I was taking pictures of. Sort of funny, one of those situations that you had to be there to appreciate, :-)

Hi Bill, I don't like spiders either. But I couldn't resist getting something like this to add to nature pictures I am collecting.

Hi Linda, Then I am NOT coming over, LOL. You take the photos and I'll look and give a comment on your picture, LMAO.

Hi Melinda. Thank you for nice comment. I will drop you a line on the use of the photo.

Hi Judi, I will come over and take a look. I am not that into spiders and webs are fascinating in design. It is my understanding that each web design is unique to the specific spider family.

Hi Deb, now that was some comment. In the first place, you needn't add the word strange to the personality of " I can't hurt it". We have a rat this traverses the fence between the golf course I live on and my rear patio area. Every night just like clockwork. So I get all these ideas , how I plan to get this little sucker. I was going to pour a whole bottle of super glue on the fence. I couldn't do it. I kept thinking of all the life saving things it would do to survive , no way. So you see, your personality is not strange, OK, at least not any more than mine is, LOL. So I still watch him. He knows I am there and is not intimidated by me at all, especially when he looks right at me and thinks" Wus" and then goes about his business.

Your son was a hero. And a good shot. A BB gun focused on a spider probably got the mother but I would bet hundreds of the babies were really ticked off ! LMAO

They work so hard to create the web and it can be swept away with almost no effort good to appreciate the effort.

OCT

I love your photos of "my city". Thanks fo sharing and keep them coming.

Hi Terry and Bonnie,

As much in life. There was a time not long ago when I would have been right there with a broom. I see life a bit more micro today through a lens and what could have been just an annoyance has become more of a wonder.

Hi Jennifer, Thanks you so much for dropping over and it is a promise. They will be coming more frequently as I try to capture the imagination of those who will come to see them.

Hi William - This is a terrific shot! You must have been beside yourself when you realised you'd forgotten the memory card! LOL At least you were able to go back and get it!

Debi

Hi Debi, I had taken the memory card out to read it and it was laying on the desk, where clearly it doesn't belong. The excercise did me good, I suppose. But by the time I got back, I saw the water beads were forming as the warming air would tend to do and I was afraid it would look all clumpled up and it actually started to look that way in the photo. What I saw earlier though was beautiful with just a fine mist making the shape of the web 3 dimentional.

I have something I want to talk to you about. I will be calling you today.

William, I have taken so many photos of spider webs and have never been able to capture a shot like this. I honestly don't like spiders either but their webs intrique me and actually look like a work of art. Thank you for the lovely shot and you're welcome to join the group Feng Shui for Real Estate if you like!

Oh, btw, I love your blog header and the name of it :)

OCT

William - I love those moments when WE become the subject of the picture. I worked at a place which had all kinds of wildlife. I remember laying on my tummy with camera in hand, waiting for a gopher to come out its hole. About that time, another employee snapped a picture of me in that position. I never did get the shot of the gopher:-)

You must have taken that picture in my backyard because that spider and all his relatives lives here! Incredible photo and thanks for sharing!

OCT

HI William - That is such a great photo, but your story is hilarious! You have to wonder if Ansel Adams ever hiked up one of th emountains in Yosemite and discovered he forgot his photographic plates! LOL I am picturing you running back and forth, and this spider minding its own business and having no idea of all the trouble you were going to in order to immortalize her and her web.

Hi Carole, Thanks for stopping over. Loved your most recent post. I want very much to join your group and will do so. thanks for the invite. My camera is ok ,nothing that powerful but I did learn that is you can get the morning mist on it or add some yourself, the camera lens will better be able to capture it. If this one had not been so wet ( the mist was already forming water droplets), it would have been way more spectacular. What I saw early before the sun was too far up, it was amazing. Sadly what I got was so much less than what I has first seen by the time I got it together to finally get the photos.

Hi Mryl, What we won't do for a photo,right. My friend Sally Cheeseman in Hawaii was climbing over a wall, jumped down , took an extra step on er land and down she went. Her first thought was about her camera, which she snapped a picture ad she landed of her car ( sideways with the door open) I have had a few near misses but no calamities as yet. The visuals of us being real estate professionals and trying to get those unusual or special photos has to be comical to others watching us.

Hi Susan Laxon, One thing San Diego does seem to have it's share of is spiders. Not the big ones like South America and Africa, but these smaller varieties that seem to be everywhere. I am waiting to see them do a web from one side of the street the other. It will probably take two spiders and you just hear them building it. Hey Virgil, tighten up your end, it is drooping and there is a car coming. PULL IT UP. hehehe

William, that is an awesome photograph! I am not a huge fan of spiders, but this is still a cool photograph!

William.. what an awesome photo.. what type camera did you use ? I have a Samsung Pro 815... your thoughts ?

Hi Tony and Darcy, Many thanks. Just for the record, I don't like spiders either but the webs are cool for about 5 minutes and then, away with them. LOL.

Hi Roland, I have an entry level Pentax D series with the anti-shake feature. I know very little about cameras just that I like them and want to eventually get a more professional model with more pixels , that also does video. This photo was taken with Pentax 18-55 mm lens with polaroid circular filter.

Oh my word that is AMAZING - I can think of a poem to go with that one! :-)

I was just reading about you forgetting the photo card ! That is so funny! I once did that with all the Painted Ladies in San Francisco - oh that was a sad day :-(

OCT

Very nice shot, William - - - but - - - God, I hate spiders! Even the photo gives me the creeps! LOL :-)

Mike

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