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Bulletin 33
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29 September 2007
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Fast Food
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I was out in my tiny little overgrown garden the other day looking for grasshoppers (got plenty of those) and eager to test my 1D Mk III and my wobbly home made butterfly flash bracket. (need to make sure I get the results I’m after during my next trip). While crawling around in the knee-high grass a movement up in a thistle caught my eye. A beetle had flown (blundered) into a spider’s web and was struggling to free itself as the owner of the web came racing down towards the prize.
I swung up and used myself as a focusing rail and moved in to focus with my crude macro set up. I took this sequence of images (and a few more) all in a matter of seconds. From entrapment to dinner all in a flash!!! Now that’s fast food! Take care and hope to share some more images with you when I return at the end of October. |
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The slightest vibration will bring the spider racing out of hiding. The beetle never stood a chance!
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It expertly wraps and weaves its silk around its prey in unbelievable speed.
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“Maybe a bow-tie would add a nice finishing touch!”
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| Out come the fangs. Could they be anymore symbolic of the end? They had the perfect red colour. Very menacing indeed! To the beetle that is!
This is a magnification of the above image. |
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Thought I’d end the sequence with a slightly more tranquil image.
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All Images, Content and Website are Copyright of Karl Andre Terblanche 2005-2007
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