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14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Colorful trap

Sunlight creates colorful spectrum on spider webs. This particular web was torn out, Spider hanging on one strand and there was another strand parallel to that. I have used shallow depth of field of Macro photography to get impressive pattern of vibrant refracting colors on distant strand. I have strong feeling that these colors have big role in attracting the preys.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 03.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2016
Photo Location: Sringeri, Chickmagalur Dist, Karnataka, India
Camera: NIKON D5000
Copyright: © Raviprakash SS