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I was so engrossed in the process of shooting this spider web that I totally forgotten about the Rule of Thirds.

Wikipedia says: “The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in photography and other visual arts such as painting. The rule states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the photograph.

Proponents of this technique claim that aligning a photograph with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the photo than simply centering the feature would”.

Perhaps that’s what I did when took this picture — I simply centered the center of the subject. Here’s another view about the Rule of Thirds: you must first know the rules before you can effectively break them.

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Spiders are among the most attractive creature for macro photography. Take this one, for instance. It looks so well-armoured and mean, like a battle tank that you could mistake it for a crab, had it not for its ability to spin web.

I’ve never seen this type of spiders before and naturally, it not only attracted my curiosity, but my curious lens as well. Perhaps, those behind the movie, Spiderman, should take a look at this one for an idea about how the man in red and blue suit would appear in the next installment.

You seen anything like this? Wikipedia has an entry of different species of spider. Maybe this one comes from the Arachnida class.

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