Turnabout is Fair Prey
Some of my best photographs were totally unplanned; a nod to the adage, "it's better to be lucky than good." During today's S.W. Ohio Diagnostic Walk-About, I was photographing paper wasps and mud dauber nests under the walkway leading to the Tree House when I saw a dark blue wasp saunter into a spider web. It seemed odd; was the wasp committing insecticide? The drama was unfolding 6 - 7 ft. from my camera lens, so I couldn't see details.
The true story emerged when I processed the image on my computer. The wasp wasn't becoming the spider's prey; it was the other way...
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