Warning: Beautiful Arachnid ahead [View all]
As I mentioned to George last week, I've had some computer problems and during recovery I upgraded to a new graphics card, two steps shy of a professional level card which was outside my budget. Supposedly it is allowing me 30 bit color rendition for 1 Billion colors. The card is so large I couldn't fit it in my micro-ATX case and had to mount it externally with a PCIe extension cable I did not know existed.
My first project has been to revisit some of my Arachnid photos of Mabels Orchard Orb Weaver and Spiny-backed Orb-weaver, the only ones populating my screen room and super colorful. I chose this as my first project because I joined a photography site that has multiple specialty groups, one of which is called Spider-ville! I would not classify these as classic macro. I prefer to include all the surrounding context of webs and play of light and composition. I've collected some in a short slideshow here: https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/SPECIAL-SLIDESHOW-ARACHNIDS
Hopefully adding more later, for now a couple of examples:

