Not Another Dozen …

Posted in Consciousness, Insects, Life, Love, Macro Photography, Meditation, Nature, Photography, Relaxation, Spirituality, Truth? by Mark on 30/06/2017

… spiders and flies.

Female ambush spider – don’t make a web as spiders are commonly understood to. Waiting for something to come within reach.

*Click on the pictures for a proper look …

Garden fly, or kitchen … Unsuspecting, because they don’t have a suspicious mind. Enjoying the pure sense of a flower head.

Another ambush spider casting or waiting in the night. Clearly uses its silk, or re-uses it. Naturally conservative.

Chia seed heads as bed for the night. A favourite of the garden fly of late. Drier and warmer than most live ‘homes’ these colder nights.

Another of those orb weavers tucked up in the greenery. Almost spiky cute and deadly dangerous to anything in its web, night or day.

Bearded bluebottle – making it up as I go. Caught napping one warm afternoon. Amazing little flyers. Zoom … round the garden.

Butterfly bush, home to so many in its season. This ambusher lived from pinhead size to half inch span, maybe longer. What a journey.

Those chia lovers again, in tandem for the night. Someone’s always got to go first. My hand in the background making light.

Definitely casting this time, maybe. Letting the silk take it where it will on a dark night. Perpetual wanderers all … nomadic.

A pretty picture of one of nature’s little fly robots on a flower robot. We’re all robots, predictable, and then something else …

Male lynx looking after the nest until the young hatch. How’s that for paternal instinct … not an unusual occurrence in nature.

Some creatures just shouldn’t mix socially with others. Life can be unpredictable, predictably so. Death for one is life for another.

The fly struggles to the last, and then …

Everybody has to die sometime, somehow.

And if there’s a choice best to do it properly …

… with a will, anew and anew and anew ….

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Thought Spark said, on 21/07/2017 at 10:23 pm

Great work Mark. Not a hint of stage fright with these guys! Only too happy to pose! :-D

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- Mark said, on 22/07/2017 at 5:31 am
  
  Thanks TS. Timing and respect for sensitivities gets you there, plus a few other things – all here https://beingmark.com/macro-illustrated/ more or less.
  
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Mike Scir said, on 12/07/2017 at 4:22 pm

Great photos, spectacular!

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- Mark said, on 13/07/2017 at 11:17 am
  
  Thanks Mike.
  
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Margaret Griffin said, on 03/07/2017 at 10:20 pm

Hi, I am intrigued by the different eye arrangements of the spiders. Fascinating!

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- Mark said, on 05/07/2017 at 2:39 pm
  
  They are …
  
  Thanks Margaret.
  
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Michael Griffiths said, on 02/07/2017 at 4:04 am

Good work, Mark.

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- Mark said, on 05/07/2017 at 2:38 pm
  
  Thanks Michael.
  
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joy said, on 02/07/2017 at 12:30 am

Captivating!

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- Mark said, on 05/07/2017 at 2:37 pm
  
  Captured …
  
  Thanks Joy.
  
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everydaystrangeblog said, on 30/06/2017 at 9:31 am

I love that spiky orb weaver!

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- Mark said, on 30/06/2017 at 12:09 pm
  
  Every little stranger has its place.
  
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kkessler833 said, on 30/06/2017 at 8:27 am

Wow! Great pics!

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- Mark said, on 30/06/2017 at 12:08 pm
  
  Thanks KK…
  
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  - kkessler833 said, on 01/07/2017 at 1:26 am
    
    Welcome!
    
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Pete Hillman said, on 30/06/2017 at 7:37 am

I am always in awe and admiration of your macro work, Mark! Another fabulous set of images! You must have good light, a narrow aperture and a sharp lens with a steady hand to add for the details you have captured here :)

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- Mark said, on 30/06/2017 at 12:07 pm
  
  Thanks Pete. Still doing my best.
  
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