Tulip-n-Spider
One of the things photography can do is show the viewer contrasts; light and dark, big and small, near and far. This allows the viewer to see the world through the vision of the photo-artist.
The image presented here takes us into the world of contrasts. The small spider appears even smaller when seen against the mass of the tulip’s sphere. The photographer has captured this small creature as it is just about to move off the surface and into the void along its thread of web. If the spider were in mid air we would not get the same feeling of contrast in mass.
Graphically I like the cropping with the curve of the surface indicating than the tulip is much larger that what we see, but we have no idea just how far it extends. The bright green in the background highlights our subject, the spider, letting it sand out more than if it had been against the darker hues.
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September 10th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Last year at tulip time in Descanso was very good. This image was taken with a 300mm Lens with tubes f5.6 to blur the background and shot at 1/100th with an iso of 200. Yes this is web belly photography, very wet.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Beautiful Roy!!!