photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Type your message and click Add Comment
It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest.
Enter an optional name and contact email address. Name
Name Email
help private comment
Eric Delmar | all galleries >> All Macro Stuff >> My Favorite Macros > Raining Baby Spiders!
previous | next
27-MAY-2005

Raining Baby Spiders!

This image is visited by a lot of people, so a little info might be appropriate:
Stepped outside of my New Jersey home one day, and saw an orange fuzzy cluster in a spider web. It didn't really look like anything except, well, an orange fuzzy cluster. So I blew on it. Aahh, a thousand baby spiders!
So I ran inside and got my camera. In the interim, apparently the law of gravitational attraction was re-applied, and the cluster regathered. Got the camera ready, and blew on it again. Took picture. Showered. Rinsed. Repeat.

Nikon D70
1/400s f/22.0 at 100.0mm iso400 with Flash hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time27-May-2005 17:54:52
MakeNikon
ModelNIKON D70
Flash UsedYes
Focal Length100 mm
Exposure Time1/400 sec
Aperturef/22
ISO Equivalent400
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programmanual (1)
Focus Distance

other sizes: small medium large original auto
comment | share
photom 14-May-2010 22:27
Best macro i seen in a long period. 50mm and closeup/extension rings?..
thenickster 22-Apr-2008 05:16
I found the same spiders in my yard in San Francisco! I need a macro lens! Any idea what kind they are? I loved watching them rain down and climb back into their cluster.
Guest 14-Jan-2007 12:25
This is one very interesting shot
Guest 08-Aug-2006 03:42
Wow! I actually had a cluster of these same spiders outside my front door last summer. I tried to take pictures too, but they didn't turn out nearly as wonderful as yours.
Argishti Khachik26-May-2006 08:45
WOW! Amazing shot!
Guest 19-May-2006 05:22
Are those baby black widows? Just kidding! :)
REALLY cool pic! Almost looks like a studio shot with the white background (overcast day?).
I'm trying to think of a neat place for you to print or commercialize this interesting image. Mousepad might be too obvious. Necktie perhaps? Kids' pyjamas for a Baby Spider Man? :)