Little Bugger!

[clarinetJWD]

Fine, so it's not a bug
This is my first attempt at capturing an image like this. How'd I do

 

[Nikon Fan]

Very lovely Joe!!! Great work for the first time, nice and sharp and excellent DOF.

 

[LaFoto]

Well! You did stunningly well!
I recently detected an old print of my first attempt to photograph a spider in its web and was surprised at how well I did that once.
Afterwards... I always had either camera-shake or "cobweb-shake" and have never achieved such well-focused photo as you have! Lovely background and - hey! - that is a cool looking spider, too!!!!

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

excellent.. love the shot!! what focal lenth was this shot at? i will bet it's at least 200mm.. what kind of spider is this?? the crop is interesting.. I really like this shot.

 

[clarinetJWD]

Thanks LaFoto and Amanda I'll have to try again!

And Raymond, I tried to get a picture with my 75-300, but couldn't find the spider! So, this picture is at 70mm (x1.5)
As for the spider, I have no idea what it is, but I'm not getting too close!

 

[Mansi]

very neat shot... the web is crisp and the use of shallow dof gives it a very fragile look.. makes it stand out more..cool spidey.. nice light on him..
you did great :thumbsup: