For some reason this year I have seen a lot of garden orb spiders. They make some of the coolest webs but they are not much fun to walk trough at night. They’ve been spinning their webs every day and they can spin a 4 to 6 foot circle in little under an hour which amazes me. We also see to have an explosion of black widows as well whose webs are quite the opposite in beauty. They are tough tangled messes that just give me the creeps. The garden orbs on the other hand do not – still I freak out if one falls on me. This one was hanging above my head against a dark wall so I couldn’t resist trying to get a shot. I used a Nikon D200 with a hand held flash off camera triggered by the built-in flash of the camera.
Those things sure get HUGE! Not what you want to bump into on a dark night!