Black and Yellow Garden Spider

[Joseph Przybyla]

Spider time in Florida, every August these appear. Any of the trails that have a canopy of vegetation overhead have the webs stretched from branch to branch. The spiders dangle overhead, not a good time for one who doesn't like spiders. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm
1/2000 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 2800 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2017
Cropped from horizontal to vertical for composition and presentation

[Jonathan Ashton]

Whoa what a beauty! The colours just shout out for attention a super shot.
Being really picky now the four legs (or bits that might be called "feet") are just a little out of focus.
I once read up about the zig zag bit I will have to refresh my memory!

[John Mack]

Nice vertical of this garden spider i've seen a few up my way as well.

[Steve Maxson]

A very colorful spider and well photographed! Good sharpness on the spider (other than the tips of the front legs, as Jon noted - a very minor point) and a nice OOF background. The zig-zag structure is called a stabilimentum. There are quite a number of proposed functions for this structure - as a Wikipedia search will attest. :S3:

[Andrew McLachlan]

Beautiful capture and nice sharpness on the spider's body. Very nicely done!