I wrote a few days ago about becoming fascinated with bees.  Another fascinating subject is spiderwebs.  To get this shot I had to go fully manual (the camera wouldn’t autofocus on a strand of spider silk). That was a first for me. Another first was using the develop function (other than for cropping) in Lightroom.  Here’s the original photo:

I almost stumbled into this spiderweb while photographing basil balm (FotD July 10).