So I head out to the field around the corner from work in search of a frog. I found a frog and decided to keep on walking to see if there was anything else interesting. I noticed some Daisies that were covered in spider webs. It looked interesting so I took a photograph of one then kept walking. On my way back, I saw a bee in a Daisy that was just behind where I knelt for the previous shot. I went relatively slow approaching the bee, but fast enough to get the shot before he flew away. As I got close enough, I realized this bee wasn't going anywhere soon. Apparently a spider had crafted quite a trap. It wasn't until I got home (much later) and was reviewing the shots, that I realized that there were a bunch of spiders all doing the same thing. They had surrounded the Daisies with their webs and were hiding beneath the petals, waiting for bugs to land. My kids thought this was pretty cool!

I took 160 photos of this one flower with the bee and the spider. It was pretty windy and I knew that there would be a number of blurred shots. Towards the end, I even mounted the flash and took about 30+ shots with it set to Hi speed sync.

This has to be my most interesting nature/macro shot to date. The Daisy alone was worthy of a shot, the bee on the Daisy was also worthy of a shot, but the spider chowing down on this bee on the Daisy is quite a find.

I'm deeming this one a "Hat Trick". . .

I've posted a few other shots from today in a couple of my galleries:

Macro Gallery:


Finally got a Frog (2008):


BW Version of Shot: