Hello Beth and welcome to the forum
from someone who's just as new to the forum as you are.
About your spiderweb - you should start looking for your spiderweb at the time of sunrise when they are still dew-covered. Shoot them from a low angle against the backlight of the sunrise, preferably against a dark background. If you do close-ups, play with a lot of different planes of focus and exposure settings and shoot away. Just thought this might give you an inspiration and/or starting point for your own ideas

Thank's a lot everyone for a nice welcome, thank's a bunch!!
Many Greetings,
Stephan

Hi from Idaho,
my name is Stephan Peters, I was born and raised in Germany and now live in beautiful Idaho. This is my first forum, because I'm new to computers too. I own this computer for two month now and I'm still learning how to use it. I've been strictly shooting film until about a year ago, when I finally decided to start shooting digital as well. Sorry, my first camera is not a Pentax, it's a Canon EOS 5D MII, and I like it, but I love my Pentax 645nII which I still use for 80% of my photography! So I'm not a Pentax only guy. Way back, I startet with an old Voigtlander and later used a Pentax 1000K. Then I got a really good deal on an Nikon F2 and a bunch of lenses and I liked it a lot, but later it was stolen from me. For quite a few years after that I was into Super 8 movie making and after that I picked up photography again, this time trying out medium format. Well - and now I'm trying out digital. Just wanted to say hi to everybody and congratulate all of you to your excellent forum.
Greetings,
Stephan

I'm like Don, I canceled a few things myself. I will definitely buy me one. So far I've been using a Canon EOS 5D MarkII for digital, but I love my Pentax 645nII and the Pentax Glass. I use most of my Pentax lenses on my Canon as well. With what I have seen so far from the 645D on pictures, it looks to me, that the whole sensor unit can be pulled out of the body (it's like an film insert that's hinged to the body) for cleaning and I assume also for replacing one to upgrade to a newer model. Just like a Digital Back.
Greetings to everybody,
Stephan Peters