It rained overnight and everything in the garden was clean and pristine. I had my eye on the Orb spiders but several other victims appeared too.
The combination of K3ii with a 100mm (non macro) Vivitar on the end of a Pentax bellows M produced some interesting results.
All ISO100 at f11-f16. A tripod and wireless release were used.

The lychnis had produced masses of carmine flowers which have turned into heavily laden seed pods



There are orb spiders everywhere, sitting patiently in the middle of their webs



The lavender finished some time ago but some of the seed pods make nice shapes



And finally, there was a great big drop of crystal clear water in the middle of a nasturtium leaf



Comments are, as always, welcomed

The small one is indeed a male and he was trying to get his wicked way without being attacked and eaten. The repeated forays to the female are (I think) supposed to acclimatise her to his presence - he didn't get it quite right did he? I saw one succeed once. All she got was one of his legs.

The second one is lovely - but so are the others.

I read the licence on Tumblr - another of their components. You give them carte blanche to do whatever the heck they want with your material - right across their various 'partners' and to sub license from them to anyone else as they see fit ( but you do retain the right to call yourself the owner of the work ) !!

Maplins do Eneloops which I use in my *istD and DS -- they might also try to flog you their 'hybrid' recharables, which are quite useless.

The final one is absolutely lovely

There is a Pentax K T6 2X with case on Ebay right now. It's a very good rear converter for green button metering

Kaspersky antivirus has an excellent ad blocker. Despite that, as a result of my daughters buying a load of makeup and nail varnish a few years ago, E bay is convinced that I am female!

You have taken some good, detailed shots there. Their heads always fascinate me, the way they are so neatly articulated beneath the shoulder mantle.

Good picture - good blog. Thank you.