‘Tis the season for something a bit more Halloween themed.
If time permits, I’ll see if I can find a few more photos. I love bats. I don’t often see them hanging around buildings in my city. Obviously, I took quick advantage of the opportunity.
Please note that this is a reboot of a series that went to seed a few years ago. I know that there are some photo hobbyists like me who post here already. Hoping to incite a bit more “community behavior” in our community blog. AndiF and BobX used to curate the old foto flog. Others contributed quite regularly, and I suspect I’d miss way too many people if I tried to name them all.
I don’t use anything especially fancy. Right now my Samsung Galaxy 6 keeps humming along, and it continues to serve me well for most general photography purposes. Unless that phone goes bad, I plan on keeping it for at least the next couple years. Some of our regulars have actual professional equipment, and before Photobucket turned into such a drag, we were graced by some absolutely stunning landscape shots, close-ups of flowers and insects, and some abstract photography.
I’ll have a new one up in a few weeks. I am planning to do this a bit earlier in November, so expect to see me back at it once more. Remember, a foto flog is not just for Fridays. Or perhaps I should say it’s Friday somewhere.
As well as spiders, etc. Have a good weekend, and hopefully some of our fellow photographers will post as well?
Here’s one from the vaults, using a really crappy digital camera:
For a few years we lived in a duplex where every fall we’d get these huge spider webs. We always named the spider responsible Charlotte. Alas, where I currently live I have not been so fortunate as far as spiders go.
It’s called an orb weaver. In So Cal we also call them Grove Spiders because they thrive in groves…in particular avocado groves.
We did not have any of the huge grove variety at our current residence until I brought some home from one of my jobs and released them…….20 years ago. Now we always have several throughout the summer. It’s the females that get huge…they gorge over the summer, breed and lay eggs…then die, only living a year.
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I always loved the webs. Alas, no more webs for me. We do get fireflies though. Those are lovely during the summer as well.
I thought this year was going to be a complete bust. Thankfully, that is not the case (at least in portions of my region).