I arrived early in the marsh on a cold fall morning when the dew and a touch of frost seemed to have combined to coat objects with a kind of frozen mist. I was hoping to find some large, beautiful spiders shining in the early morning light, as I had found repeatedly during the summer and early fall mornings. My initial scan found no spider webs at all, but suddenly I spotted one in the cattails. It was not large, but its rarity made it extra special. The structure is not very complex or symmetrical and the silk threads seem to be heavy-duty, rather than delicate. I wondered what kind of spider made such a web, but did not spot the maker of the web. Perhaps she’ll continue her handiwork for a little while longer—I’ll be checking each time I return to the marsh.
Last web standing in the fall
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Mike Powell 
Nicely done!
Thanks. I happen to love spider webs and have posted some pretty awesome photos of them in the past few months.
Nice shot!
Couldn’t ask for more out of that picture. All the elements fit together perfectly!
Needless to say, I enjoyed it emmensely.
Super nice shot, Mike! I don’t know how you get the web so clear and sharp! And I really like the colors and bokeh in the background.
This is a case when I do the focusing manually. Some of my shots of this web I did using a tripos–this may have been one of them. As you noted, I tried to choose the aperture carefully too to blur the background. Most of what I tried to do worked.