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Bob
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 Click here to comment on this image. Appeared on our ceiling one night. Apologies for the quality, but it gave me stiff neck  |
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chrisbet
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Nuctenea umbratica AKA walnut orb weaver. Harmless. |
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Eric
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What a beauty! |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Nuctenea umbratica AKA walnut orb weaver. Harmless. I had a look on the web - pardon the pun - and I thought that's what it was.BUT... see this..... https://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/blog/the-most-venomous-spiders-in-the-uk I have a terrible image? of a hummingbird hawk moth taken with the Canon powershot ( before I bought the Nikon) -----------  Click here to comment on this image. Needless to say , I haven't seen it again since I bought the Nikon  |
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Eric
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Couldn’t get that link to work, but I presume it’s referring to the Noble False Widow…Steatoda nobilis? We are plagued with them!! Living in a bungalow means all the windows have to be watched. They are actually largely nocturnal. One of the reasons they are so successful…. the birds are asleep when they are most active, plus they also have 3 broods of spiderlings a year! My wife had a nasty encounter a couple of years ago. Whilst pruning in the garden she needed to pop to the loo. One of the disturbed spiders was on her jumper. On the loo, she suddenly saw it crawling about and frantically whacked it off her. She thought she had brushed it away…she had down….. her trousers!!! This is what it did to her ankle as it “fought for its life” getting out of the entrapment of her jeans….  Click here to comment on this image. Took weeks to heal and you can still see slight scarring. Sorry….I make no excuse. I kill the buggers (they are immigrants after all!) when ever I see them. I positively rejoice at seeing good old English spiders inside and outside the house.  |
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chrisbet
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Hi Eric - pesky full stop attached to link - now removed so the link works. Bob, I think they are overstating (to sell their repellant?) - yes the spider will bite if threatened but the effect is minimal. |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Hi Eric - pesky full stop attached to link - now removed so the link works. Posts crossed…but the impact of a bite is very much down to the persons immune system. My sister who lives in Guildford was bitten by one and she developed Vasculitis from it! They don’t like to stay overnight at our place any more…………….but mainly due to my cooking |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Hi Eric - pesky full stop attached to link - now removed so the link works. With sprays you have to be careful you don’t kill the non invasive species. The false widow makes a diaphanous thick web around structures as opposed to the trapeze like suspensions of the good guys. Spraying the webs is more selective…and just as effective at getting them to jump ship. They drop like stones on a thread and play dead….but they are not!! I spray under the window sills and it’s like the Libyan embassy assault by the SAS…..abseiling down in groups.(without the stun grenades lol) |
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Bob
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Here's the linkfrom the address bar https://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/blog/the-most-venomous-spiders-in-the-uk |
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Bob
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Eric wrote:Couldn’t get that link to work, but I presume it’s referring to the Noble False Widow…Steatoda nobilis? The link works on our computers here. "our" spider isn't one of those - the noble false widow's legs aren't alternately markedlight/dark.re the bite- looks horrible :( |
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Bob
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A couple more shots after I had removed it from the ceiling this lunchtime - it was over the table !! Click here to comment on this image. Taken with the 105mm Nikkor Micro  Click here to comment on this image. Seriously ugly  |
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chrisbet
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Not pretty at all ... The pic could be enhanced by focus stacking to lose the out of focus legs ... |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Not pretty at all ... Only if it stays still. He could put it in the fridge for a few hours…that will stop it moving for a while. Lol i think it’s quite handsome! |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Not pretty at all ... err.. wot? |
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chrisbet
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Focus stacking - taking a series of photos focussing on different "planes" through the subject and then using focus stacking software which takes the sharpest bits from each of the photos and combines them into one image - effrectively increasing the dof. Eg this one taken with my old D90 camera on tripod manually focussed on rear flowers and then successive photos taken while slowly turning the focus ring until the front flower was in focus - about 11 photos in all if I remember right.  Click here to comment on this image. Or this one taken with a reversed lens to get macro --  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Focus stacking - taking a series of photos focussing on different "planes" through the subject and then using focus stacking software which takes the sharpest bits from each of the photos and combines them into one image - effrectively increasing the dof. Fiendish - but isn't it cheating? - I suppose not if you are selling photographs for a living. I will investigate this. |
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Eric
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Bob wrote:Fiendish - but isn't it cheating? AHH....thats a debatable point. How much digital manipulation is "acceptable" before we say it's not right? The latest AI tsunami is going to change everyone's perception of "what exactly is photography?" The subject has been covered on another thread started by Graham who was writing an article for a professional photography magazine. For example here is a Lynx I photographed in Colorado......  Click here to comment on this image. Here is a Lynx I photographed at a UK Wildlife park...  Click here to comment on this image. What a coincidence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Eric
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No ......good old AI or AyeUp as we call it in Yorkshire. Is that a photograph or an example of photographic artistic creation? I don't know how the future will regard images......probably don't WANT to know, if I am being honest. But then, people have been mucking about with images ever since computer imaging software arrived. Not in the same league as AI fantasyscapes but what amount of buggering about turns a photo into an image? Does this simple addition of an asymmetric white border, to emphasise the 3D effect and height of the jump, make this photo ...no longer a photo?  Click here to comment on this image. |
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chrisbet
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Friendly room mate -  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Friendly room mate - Nice Brit spider  |
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chrisbet
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yep - a male tegenaria domestica on the hunt for a female  |
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Bob
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potentialEric wrote:AHH....thats a debatable point. How much digital manipulation is "acceptable" before we say it's not right? When you consider the engineering - electronic and mechanical - which makes the production of these images possible, you can do the same with musical instruments and the sounds they make, but it still requires extremely talented people to make these devices produce their full potential . My "cheating" remark was tongue in cheek - and if you hadn't added the second photograph, I wouldn't thought any more than" how the hell did he get up there to take that shot?" |
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chrisbet
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Another one for the collection  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Bob wrote:When you consider the engineering - electronic and mechanical - which makes the production of these images possible, you can do the same with musical instruments and the sounds they make, but it still requires extremely talented people to make these devices produce their full potential . My "cheating" remark was tongue in cheek - and if you hadn't added the second photograph, I wouldn't thought any more than" how the hell did he get up there to take that shot?" There’s a whole heap of “photos I took but not in the place I took them” on the AI thread somewhere. |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Another one for the collection Magnificent! |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Another one for the collection Superb!! |
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Bob
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Here's a couple of seemingly mundane insects. The first is a mayfly imago? or nymph with wing buds. It was on the wall in the utility room, and,on reflection ,it must have been dead for some time. Click here to comment on this image. The second is a moth, also dead ( we had recently sprayed the carpet with a carpet moth killer ), but try as I might, I have not found the exact creature in any of my moth books!  Click here to comment on this image. Taken on the dining room table. |
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Bob
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Here's the arachnid version of David and Goliath . Goliath got caught in David's web, some of which can just be seen. This went on for some time. I think Goliath eventually  Click here to comment on this image. Click here for EXIF data won. |
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Bob
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Found this in the shower room.It's a Feathered Gothic - I only know this by looking on bettonyb.co.uk  Click here to comment on this image. Click here for EXIF data  Click here to comment on this image. Click here for EXIF data  Click here to comment on this image. Click here for EXIF data |
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