spontaneous nature photography, or ... have camera, will snap

To do nature photography you don't have to be in a garden, park or the bush. Just make sure you have a camera and keep your eyes open.

A spider has already spun the silk using the spinnaret glands at the top of its abdomen. It holds the silk using several legs - a bit like holding them in its lap. At the same time, it uses one leg to hold one end in a kind of lasoo, while feeding the silk out using another leg.  The tensile strength of spider silk is greater than the same amount of steel.

A suburban shopping strip, a street with no trees or gardens ... but vases of flowers on the pavement tables allow for a nature photo op.

I'm late for a meeting, but I stop to admire the clever combination of flowering Banksias and Gastrolobium celsianum in a little church garden fronting a busy suburban street ...

A fig tree grows out of a crack in a wall under a busy road.  Recently it disappeared. The local council tried to remove it, but it's back. I regularly drive past it. It's a reminder of the tenacity of nature in relation to the built environment.

Early in the morning, waiting for the kettle to boil,  I notice the changing colours of the sky through the window as the sun rises.

Lit up by the sun, this might be something belonging to a fairy. Released from the seedhead of a dandelion, carried by wind, this is how the dandelion disperses its seed. Called a cypsela, it got stuck in a cobweb on a window.

Poor beetle fell into a bucket of water and drowned. The bucket contained plant cuttings destined for the compost. Here is the resulting series of photos ...  entitled Still Life with Floating Beetle.