The web is strung between a high brick wall and the plant you see later. Behind it curves a white wall, accounting for the light that falls so conveniently on the spider at the centre of his web.
He's too close to the wall for a head-on shot from this side. There is a ring of dead flies around him on the web, his larder laid out.
Moving in closer I'm my usual inept self with focus on the macro, always over-estimating my depth of field. Luckily, with the help of Lightroom (fab tool that it is), there are enough colours, shapes, and textures to keep the eye amused
A moment later, and he's off on patrol, heading up the top of the support rope, motoring along as if on a tight schedule. Perhaps he has to do an entire circuit of the web...
His destination is the flower head to which this side of the web is attached. In the images taken earlier there appears to be a big stash of web getting tangled up, so maybe he's stretched that out ...
There's certainly a few loose strands on that rope. I give you a spider.
