Sunday Cobwebs by phil_howcroft

Sunday Cobwebs

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day, but in the late evening the mist and fog descended and basically stayed with us for all day on Sunday.

The mist / fog meant that the cobwebs in our garden were quite pretty 'early doors'.

I took a few images while tidying our garden pond and cutting a few shrubs back.

This is about the best image I came up with. I converted it to black and white because the bokeh background had quite a few red pyracantha berries which were detracting from the main subjects.

The light is a solar powered lantern that hangs on our decking !

Shot with manual focussing and held held...I should really have got my tripod out, because it is not quite as sharp as it should be !
Love the web!!!
November 20th, 2011  
Lovely the way it just hangs there & so intricate in the making ! I think you have done a great job with this Phil & I like the dark background...it shows the web off beautifully !
November 20th, 2011  
really good pic mate...
November 21st, 2011  
Excellent web! Good work!
November 21st, 2011  
The B&W is definitely the way to go. Every strand shows up beautifully.
November 21st, 2011  
Looks great in b&w. Fantastic detailing of all the intricacy and hard work of web spinning.
November 21st, 2011  
wow! the web looks amazing, this looks especially cool in B&W
November 21st, 2011  
:-) All the best people did cobwebs! lol Sounds like you had a fruitful gardening day! I like this in b/w...Thanks for your comments as ever.
November 21st, 2011  
Fabulous monochrome Phil. A fav for me.
November 21st, 2011  
I love this. A Fav because it's so well composed!
November 21st, 2011  
Beautiful capture! The cobweb looks so pretty.
November 21st, 2011  
Fav for me - love this with the lamp.
November 21st, 2011  
Great b&w Phil. :) And such interest that the web is attached to a lantern!
November 21st, 2011  
really cool shot Phil - my spiders have all gone taking their webs with them! Need to find a location that has some more to capture a web as cool as this! nicely done with the lamp in shot too
November 21st, 2011  
@sparkle cheers juliette, i'm sure you will get some webs ...you are in ireland...it's normally wet and damp there :)
November 21st, 2011  
@russianblue cheers Kass :)
November 21st, 2011  
@judithg Judith a big thank you for the +fav...i never get many for my pics
November 21st, 2011  
@myautofocuslife livia thanks for commenting :)
November 21st, 2011  
@caddick thanks Mike, i ran a few shot off but this was probably the best
November 21st, 2011  
@swilde thanks for the kind words Sue and an extra thanks for the +Fav...much appreciated :)
November 21st, 2011  
@Cherrill thank you cherrill ...yes cobwebs galore yesterday
November 21st, 2011  
@laurentye thanks lauren ...i think the B/W works
November 21st, 2011  
@heatherwatters heather your words are appreciated :)
November 21st, 2011  
@allie912 allison, it was a tricky shot to get right
November 21st, 2011  
@marlboromaam thank you marlboro your support is appreciated
November 21st, 2011  
@andycoleborn thanks andy :)
November 21st, 2011  
@happypat thanks Pat it was hard to get the framing right because the decking rails kept sneaking into the frame
November 21st, 2011  
@kerristephens thnx kerri ...i think we all love webs :)
November 21st, 2011  
@phil_howcroft LOL, there's wet and damp and there's heaving it down so hard that you don't want to go out in it to find webs and any webs that were left have been washed away!! :o)
November 21st, 2011  
Really like this, great in b&w too.
November 22nd, 2011  
Congrats on making the PP page!
November 22nd, 2011  
saw this on PP-love &fav :)
November 22nd, 2011  
Hurray for cobwebs! You made it onto the PP with this......quite a few of us showing off our webs there today! :-)
November 22nd, 2011  
This is gorgeous, Phil .. and looks great in B&W :o)
November 23rd, 2011  
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