The Nature Photography Thread

[ssssnakeluvr]

AWESOME!!!! love the horned lizards!! a little tough to keep going, but awesome lizards!!!

[Hornets23]

cool lizard!

[katach]

More of one of my favorite things to do.

[RedSidedSPR]

Those are really good. Love the first two. And the spider.

[katach]

Thank you!! I love photography! It is one of my most favorite things to do.

[RedSidedSPR]

Me too, i just don't have a good camera at the moment.

[guidofatherof5]

Very nice photos.
Love those orb weaver spiders.
I see many of them in my yard. Kids and I make sure we don't disturb them.
Orb-weaver spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[kibakiba]

There was one that had made a web in the doorway of my house, and we have an "if we see you, you die" policy, since I'm allergic to spider venom and tend to get pretty sick when they bite me. This time, though, I decided to let the spider live and moved it to another part of my deck. I don't know why I did this, but I picked the spider up with my bare hands. The spider seemed shocked, but happily (I hope) stayed on my hand until I put it up to the wall, where he just crawled off.

[ssssnakeluvr]

theres a ton of orb weavers in Kansas....smaller brown ones... eat mainly flying insects... we have "cat" spiders or "cat faced" spiders here... large orb weavers with 2 bumps on their abdomens that give the abdomen the look of a cat's head. love them!!!! very gutsy spiders....eat anything that hits their web....bees, wasps...large grasshoppers... they are mostly orange where I am, but have seen black and gray ones too... had an awesome black and pink one years ago back in Idaho where I grew up

they are araneus gemmoides if anyone wants to see pics..just do a google search, lots of cool pics

here's one from my yard

[Sergey]

Photos made in the Vologda region

Vipera berus