Cosmic Web III
Another post from the cosmic webs in my garden, previously shown in Cosmic Web, Iris Cosmos and Cosmic Web II. Again, I have chosen to present some crops from the original image, which is the last one of these four.
I am not sure which of these I like the best. The top one for the round ‘elbows’ in the web, the third one for the rainbows of light or the main photography at the bottom for its outrageous abstractness. But probably it is the subtlety of the second image, green background striated by out of focus webs in the foreground, that I would keep if I had the choice of only one. Good thing I don’t have to make that choice!
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon FD 50mm/f3.5 lens, reverse mounted on extension tubes, ISO100, f-16, 1/25th. Processed in Lightroom 4 and Topaz Clarity.
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burnt embers 
I can’t get enough of these ‘cosmic web’ shots today- they’ve blown my mind!! The last one in particular… wow
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Thanks martine. I should look in my archive and see if I have more of these – I think maybe I only got through processing a few of them from two different shoots. Maybe there are a few good ones left.
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Well I’m certain I’m not the only one who would like to see more- exciting to see such unique pictures!
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I like them all, but the last one is amazing!
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Thank you Laurie – that last one is the uncropped version. Glad you like it, it is very satisfying to get these kinds of macro shots. And in some ways even more satisfying to do it with old equipment stuck on the front of my camera.
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Stunning abstracts!
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Hi Mike – thanks so much. These webs are so much fun to photograph.
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The third one is really interesting, the markings on those pieces in the upper left corner reminds me of marks left from a Milling machine (ohhh, the days of me being a machinist)! 😀
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Hi David. Little did you know, while machining, that you were tracing the faint markings of light. Just like photography, only more subtle!
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I really like the feeling of depth in the green one. I sort of lost myself in it. The other shots were spectacular – colorful and mysterious. All in all, another fine post, my friend!
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Thanks Melinda! It is a lot of fun looking closely at those shots for the little gems that stand out on magnification. So many interesting details.
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Some of those colors are gem-like, aren’t they?
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Ha, I didn’t even notice the play on words. Yes, they are!
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Good thing I was around to point it out, then!
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Wow! I can’t pick a favorite either. We are lucky (?) in that we do not have a lot of spiders here. Lucky as far as my wife is concerned. I miss the photographer/subject interaction I used to have with them in my other house, though.
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Hi Ken. I am surprised you don’t have a lot of spiders at some times of the year in your garden. Here we have spiders year round (better climate for that) and at certain times there can be hundreds of newly hatched eensy weensy ones.
I have always liked spiders, even kept some for a while when in my late teens or early 20’s, and for a while worked at a museum in entomology collections, working mostly with soil mites, a spider relative. When I was a kid my biologist godfather dedicated a children’s book to me and some of the other children in his life called “Mr. Spindles and the Spiders” (illustrated by Louis Slobodkin) – it was about the extremes that Mr. Spindles went to in order to get rid of spiders in his house, but in the end he reconciled himself to spiders having been there first and and lived, with spiders, happily ever after. Or something like that. http://slobodkin.net/books/target54.html.
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I like the book – and am planning on reading it to my granddaughter.
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Melinda, that web link is not all of the book, nor does it have all of the illustrations for the parts that it quotes. Sadly, second hand versions are really very expensive on abebooks dot com and similar sites. It really is a good book though and your grand daughter would enjoy it, though maybe it is too late for Ken’s wife.
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The reason we don’t have spiders is because I spray for wasps. Our brick house attracts wasps who want to nest on the warm brick, especially on the south side. We both have had allergic reactions to the stings so we had to do something about it. The spray only repels wasps but it also repels spiders, too, a fringe benefit says my wife. I don’t really like the idea of the spray but it beats the agony of the stings and the costly ER visits.
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That I can understand, and while I sympathise with the spiders, you do need to do something. Even if you had a nice ‘socialised’ medical system (cough), you still don’t want to be at the ER.
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These are great! I’m looking on my phone but will check them out in the big screen when I can.
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Thanks Emily! I am glad to know they come across OK on a phone – I don’t have one and sometimes wonder whether my posts can even be appreciated by what must be a majority of viewers these days. Obviously this one works!
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They look great, really. I don’t usually look at posts on my phone but I’m away at the moment.
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These are wonderful!
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Thank you Lisa!
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These are amazing. Ehpem! Each one. A great addition to your series.
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Hi Karen and thanks so much. Each time I look at one of the images closely I see something fascinating. I think this series will continue intermittently for quite a while yet.
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That is quite a “website” you have there!
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Ha Ha Ha. *Slaps thighs*
Richard, that is one of the most truly awful comments I have ever had, out of about 5,000 comments, so I guess you nailed it:)
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I disagree – it’s an awesome comment, not awful!
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Oh Gawd Melinda, don’t encourage him!
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I have an idea he might not need much encouragement…
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Like you, he’s a writer. Does that tell you all you need to know?
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Yes. Yes, it does.
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