Weekender May 9 and 10, 2026

[Man From Ironbark]

I did a series of these at one stage. In the arid country it may be vrey dry but in cooler wetaher small spiderwebs in any small pocket on the ground where they can get out of the wind, Like the tracks of a horse or simply any dimple on the soil surface will have a spider web in it and the dew will collect on these webs making strings of pearls and ebony. The site may be less than 2" square or often about the size of a mounted 35mm transparency or slide. It may be the only sign of moisture that can be seen and gone within an hour or two of sunrise.
They may represent as a string of diamonds or pearls and even as dark as ebony, sometimes as rainblow coloured jewels. I try and mostly fail but the odd shot has a fast enough shutter speed to be sharp and some are artistic in their blurriness. Face it, it is usually fairly dark in these small breaks of the flat featureless surface when the camera is barely two inches from the dark space.











Unashamed in my curiosity for what the camera will show.