Mid-Air Murderer

I'm not sure what sort of spider this is, but guessing from the golden colour of the legs, I think that it's a Golden Orb spider. I took this picture in the back yard of a house in Sydney, Australia, Golden Orb spiders are common in Australia. The lush green of the vegetation in the background adds to the shot, and also the sun shining onto the spider pronounces the gold colour of the spider's legs.

A Mock Orange

This is a Mock Orange, but it's not orange. The flower in my blog post titled "An Uncertain Illusion" is also a mock orange. I really like the nonexistent (well, not quite nonexistent) focus on the background, which turns the little bit of light into separate pale, slightly translucent spheres.

One thing that particularly irritates me about this picture is the right most petal of the mock orange, it's too blurry, and it obscures the centre of the flower. Also, the bud to right of that flower petal is too blurry as well. But all in all, this is one of my favourite pictures of a flower.

A Deep, Dented Blur

This is a picture of a water strider on the surface of a very murky creek. These creatures fascinate me, the way they rely on the cohesion and surface tension of water to survive, it's truly amazing, and I find it hard to believe how anybody can believe that a creature so extremely intricate and detailed as this one could possibly be formed by the process of evolution. Anyway, back to the point of this blog. I'm beginning to realize how extremely important the focus in a photo is, when I got to type into a post "what I like about this picture is...", I always think, "oh, it's the focus, again." And so it is with this picture, but, of course, that's not the only major point. Also, the rich, lush green colour that results from the reflection of the trees, combined with the deep, brown colour of the water. Coming back to the focus, the main point is how it's all blurry and not quite visible (in fact, so blurry it irritates some peoples eyes), and then suddenly there are those little dips in the water, the dents created by the pressure of the weight of the water strider on the surface of the water. But, if you zoom in, you'll see that the focus on the water strider is not perfect. But I don't think this is my fault, I was holding the camera extremely steadily, it was the vibration of the water and the constant movement (you can hardly ever get them to stay still) of the water strider. So, yes, there are my views on this picture.