The midnight snack of urban legends
According to popular urban legend, you eat these while asleep. Mmmm… tasty… This one was half way up my kitchen wall by the back door.
Took this balanced on a chair by one leg, the other propped against the kitchen door. I knew my rock climbing skills would be useful. The subject was reasonably cooperative, neither jumping on my face nor running away. I would have used my macro tube, but the spider is too large and the location too difficult to set that up, sometimes you need to compromise when taking photos.
Mating Flies
If this summer turns out to be like the previous one, there’ll be plenty more of these things buzzing about outside. These two quite obligingly landed on my office window and waited long enough for me to get my camera, attach the macro extension tube and try out different settings.
Sandal Castle
According to Wikipedia:
Sandal Castle is a ruin in Sandal, a suburb of the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, overlooking the River Calder and Pugneys Country Park. It was the site of royal intrigue, the opening of one of William Shakespeare‘s plays, and was the source for a common children’s nursery rhyme.
I like the low quality look this image has which is caused by me stacking a polarising filter and red filter onto the lens, and then not realising the vignetting around the sides until processing later. There’s some slight Photoshop work done on the image to remove all the colour and fix the black levels.
