I am glad that it is raining, though it puts a "damper on outdoorsy" stuff.

We need the rain though, its been dry but between the showers I did manage these and no there are no spiders checking their emails...

Though last night there just happened to be a persistant little jumper that kept coming back and wanting to crawl across my keyboard, even after several times of picking it up on a piece of paper and placing it elsewhere in the room to ferret out bugs. So after those several attempts to be humane, my patience at an end, I took it to the toilet and...well you've probably seen the movie.
Here are some shots I took while the rain was taking a break.

EOS 30D
Tripod/manual mode
1/100 sec. @ f/4 ISO 400
Cloudy/heavy overcast
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro

EOS 30D
Tripod/manual mode
1/100 sec. @ f/11 ISO 400
Cloudy/heavy overcast
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro

EOS 30D
Tripod/manual mode
1/100 sec. @ f/10 ISO 400
Cloudy/heavy overcast
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Composition was the biggest thing I was working on with these and by chance the backgrounds were not to bad except for the second image of the Smokey Winged moth, in which I think it is a bit busy but not too much so, in the first the background is the side of my house and yes that thing or insect is on a "Sow Thistle."

I tried to compose these images in the viewfinder first, the main reason for the tripod, however after download, they all looked quite different when I started to work with them. Of course they always do.

All are cropped at 50% plus the usual processing with Photo Impact 6. Constructive comments and criticism are quite welcome and encouraged.
