Over the last two days, I have had three sessions in the same spot – up at the high school in town. Setting up for the first one yesterday, early in the morning, I saw a huge web buried between some bushes, with the spider curled up in the middle, wet from the morning dew. Since then, I have given this particular spider three sessions, complete with a fancy camera, off-camera lighting, the works – not sure it appreciates the attention though. It’s like my secret little model. In the middle of a crowded area, yet the 150 kids I have photographed in that spot have no idea it is there. Probably best for both the kids and the spider.

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The spider that lives in my fire pit.

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As mentioned in other posts, I am at my town’s park almost daily. Sometimes I run home between sessions; the park is always crowded so I never really park in the same place twice. This time, I happened to pull in and saw this incredible sight. A vast gaping hole in an evergreen tree, with the open, filled with this spider’s web. I did not see a spider when I parked and went off, and I knew I would return to it after the senior session I was going to. When I came back, the spider was home. Armed with the Hasselblad and a studio light on a stand, I gave the spider and the web their own session. I am sure people were wondering why I was lighting this tree up with photographic lights; it was not the first time I had looked strange from a distance. Here are the results.

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The web outside my window this morning.

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Admiration for hard work.

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