Spun

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I discovered the garden spider and web in my Spun piece while exploring the Rose Garden at the Rye Patch. As soon as I saw all of the squiggly lines on the backside of the web, I instantly knew that I had to capture this scene for my Naturally Abstract gallery. My artistic vision was to fill as much of the frame as I could with the wonderfully stitched web pattern. While not too easy to see, the spider is actually on the other side of the web, which increased both my desirability to create a composition and my excitement level. If you look real close on a larger image, you’ll be able to see some legs and her abdomen. Since the focal point was the web itself and the depth of field was fairly shallow, not much detail in the background remained. That said, individual strands of silk and hairs on her legs are visible.