Photo by Cheryl Andrews©
On Wednesdays all over the internet bloggers post a photo with no words to explain it. The idea is the photo says so much it doesn’t need a description.
Other Wordless Wednesday Contributors:
Photo by Cheryl Andrews©
On Wednesdays all over the internet bloggers post a photo with no words to explain it. The idea is the photo says so much it doesn’t need a description.
Other Wordless Wednesday Contributors:
Cheryl Andrews 
23 comments
9 October 2013 at 7:59 pm
Wunderkamera
How beautiful! And never be embarrassed by your search for perfection. The result is exquisite. (Though I speak as one who didn’t put the garbage out last week because the two cans were joined by a spectacular spider’s web and I couldn’t bear to spoil it. So you can take my opinion on obsessiveness for what it’s worth.)
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9 October 2013 at 8:57 pm
Cheryl
I’m sure if anyone saw me on those steps, air cast and all, camera jammed to my face and trying to match the swaying of the breezes to get one, just one shot in focus … they’d think I’d been into the scotch (again)
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11 October 2013 at 11:38 am
Wunderkamera
I love THAT image too, Cheryl!
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9 October 2013 at 6:26 pm
carin
Not until I enlarged it did I see the spider web. It’s wonderful both ways — with or without the architecture. I love what Barbara says about ‘Fall’. There’s your title. (: And that it was gone moments later… wow. What a gift to have ‘caught’ it. As for spiders and their magical weaving… the most amazing web I ever saw was an elaborate thing between the two chairs Peter and I sat in at dinner in a hotel dining room. By breakfast this amazing web had been created that we dared not disturb. We sat elsewhere. I have a picture of it somewhere. Pre-digital…
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9 October 2013 at 8:53 pm
Cheryl
Hope you find that photo, Carin … a future WW perhaps?
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9 October 2013 at 2:55 pm
Lucid Gypsy
Perfection Cheryl!
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9 October 2013 at 2:57 pm
Cheryl
Thanks, Gilly … quite the compliment coming from you!
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9 October 2013 at 2:48 pm
Allyson Lattata
I was fooled too. I was going to ask how on earth you captured the leaf falling and in such sharp detail. You have to look very closely to see the spiderweb threads. It’s like those invisible wires used in film to create the illusion of an actor jumping high or flying. Wonderful shot.
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9 October 2013 at 2:56 pm
Cheryl
Thanks, Allyson. The leaf was suspended right in front of my face! At first I thought it was drifting down then realized it was swaying with the breeze, not drifting at all. THEN I saw the spider web strands.
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9 October 2013 at 2:27 pm
C.B. Wentworth
So beautiful! That little leaf makes me long to live in a place where the leaves change colors. 🙂
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9 October 2013 at 3:01 pm
Cheryl
Oh C.B. … how sad that you don’t, that you are missing out on such poetic inspiration, the change of seasons from summer to autumn.
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9 October 2013 at 1:29 pm
Barbara Lambert
Oh, you fooled me too. I was going to say “that’s what I call “fall” — and, well, I still do. But I thought you’d actually captured fall in the act! A lovely shot. I had to enlarge to see the spider web, so you did have me fooled but your other ww friends are sharper!
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9 October 2013 at 1:44 pm
Cheryl
After taking a lot of shots to get just one in focus (the wind was blowing), Barbara, I carried on down the steps to the dock. Minutes later on the way back up the leaf was gone.
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9 October 2013 at 12:19 pm
Allison Howard
Did you capture this as it fell? What a great shot – you managed to create interest in a brown, dying (dead) leaf.
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9 October 2013 at 1:40 pm
Cheryl
If you look real close, Allison, you will see the few shimmery strands, the beginnings of a spiders web. The dead leaf fell into that …
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9 October 2013 at 10:38 am
SheSheeshkerbob Yeoman
How the heck would a spider do that? The shallow depth of field works perfectly for this image – good focus – and the lighting is perfect, too, on the leaf and web but background subdued. What are the spots on the leaf, holes eaten or eggs laid?
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9 October 2013 at 11:09 am
Cheryl
I think the spider did a big leap from the maple tree to the deck rail and this long dead and decomposing leaf fell into the spider’s first few strands. Can you imagine how annoyed that brave and industrious little creature must have been?
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9 October 2013 at 9:26 am
cynthiagrstacey
That is really cool! great pic
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9 October 2013 at 9:47 am
Cheryl
Thanks, Cynthia! I appreciate the feedback … glad you stopped by for a look.
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9 October 2013 at 8:30 am
Mary
You fooled me. It looks like you captured it as it dropped. Great image.
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9 October 2013 at 8:35 am
Cheryl
I had to take an embarrassing number of macro shots,Mary, to get one in focus … it was swinging in the breeze while it dangled in the web.
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9 October 2013 at 8:22 am
Heart To Harp
Love it! Law of gravity repealed once again!
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9 October 2013 at 8:28 am
Cheryl
Hee hee … with the help of a spider’s web, Janet!
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