Photographs (a chance to show off)

[lyman]

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center of web was bigger than a 12" LP,

not seen one with the 'dash' pattern around the edges of the web before,

shot slightly towards or almost facing the morning sun,

this shot is with the sun to my back, not as visible

shot with a Pixel 7 Pro,

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[Ken The Kanuck]

Thank you !

[Phloating Phlasher]

The zigzag is a "trademark" of the Yellow Garden Spider.
"Argiope aurantia is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, black and yellow garden spider, golden garden spider, writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia

[JohnMOhio]

Good job there Doc.

[Dragonsdad]

Nicely done.

and...
Great shot!

[lyman]

The zigzag is a "trademark" of the Yellow Garden Spider.
"Argiope aurantia is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, black and yellow garden spider, golden garden spider, writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia

it's not really a zig zag,
had plenty of the big spiders in the area of the shop, and at both my first and current house,

this one was still there today, and the spider is a smaller darker spider,

either way, they do good, and are facinating,


my first house had a full front porch, and the big yellow and orange ones would sometimes build a web between the posts, some days we would have 4 or 5 webs going on the porch,

[Doc Sharptail]

Nicely done.

and...
Great shot!

Just to be clear.... the mountain lake photo is not mine- it's Ken the Canuck's. All I did was rotate it for him.
(I don't think I have a lens that technically perfect in my film era manual focus lens collection~ which is all I use.)

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Dragonsdad]

Just to be clear.... the mountain lake photo is not mine- it's Ken the Canuck's. All I did was rotate it for him.

***

Understood and very commendable of you to make sure that no theft of any sort was attempted.
I was able to follow the progression. ...honest

Ken took a very nice picture and you did a timely job of image rotation.
I didn't mean to complicate this. I didn't notice the forum's attribution until I re-read my post.

[dryheat]

I have a hard on for yellow spiders. Well, as hard as it gets. I kept getting bit in the night and had welts in the rare areas. I went to my doctor, and he said it was internal (he's been wrong before). Luck was with me; I happened to see a little yellow spider in the house. I looked it up and it was described as the Yellow Sack Spider. I bombed the house. That involved taping off everything, covering everything and leaving on a campout for a couple of days. Hasn't happened since. The eight legged bastards. Oh, and I don't fear spiders as much as ticks. We do have ticks in Arizona. That's another story.

[Ken The Kanuck]

Understood and very commendable of you to make sure that no theft of any sort was attempted.
I was able to follow the progression. ...honest

Ken took a very nice picture and you did a timely job of image rotation.
I didn't mean to complicate this. I didn't notice the forum's attribution until I re-read my post.

Just to muddy the waters a bit more. my DIL took this picture. It shows the point where our cabin is.

Thanks to all for the help and kind words.

KTK

[Dragonsdad]

From time to time I'll come across an Orb Spider that I'll more or less adopt. This year, it's a web under the porch overhang that I try not to mess with. Anything that cuts down on the number of bugs trying to get inside is okay by me.

[lyman]

the web is still there in in good shape,
usually they don't last this long,

must be good hunting, since another spider has a smaller sized web on the same tree,,

[Ltdave]

put the Canon 5D4 and lenses away,

loaded a YashicaMat124G with 12 exposures of Kodak Tmax 100 and grabbed my tripod and Weston Master III light meter, then headed downtown

one shot was showed some camera shake (the shutter/winder seemed to have a mind of its own) and a couple of back lit buildings, had more shadow than what would have been indicated by the meter reading

this young lady gladly continued working while i metered, composed and shot these two photos

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[Doc Sharptail]

That ain't bad at all.

Is this the current version of T-max 100, or is it freezer stored?
I've come across T-max shots on another board that showed very impressive tonal range.
The T-grains seem more responsive to light than the old stand by Plus-X/FP-4.

I can't remember what system the Weston lll is~ selenium cell, carbon strip or p-d cell.

Yashica glass was very good, and the 124G enjoys a bit of a cult following.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Phloating Phlasher]

Weston 3, 4, & 5 are all selenium. The "Ranger-9" was the first CdS.
Big honkin' sensor behind the trapdoor for bright conditions & the clip in incident cone.
The Mat 124 was my preferred backup camera when doing wedding photography. I never needed a separate meter with it because the built in CdS one was pretty accurate.
Best exposure system I ever used was a Weston Master V. Take a reflected reading turn 180?, clip on the Invercone, take an incident reading Average the EV's & pick the shutter speed aperture desired for the shot.