{"id":213279,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213279-beautiful-eight-legged-lady-photo-by-andrew-rate","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213279","headline":"\"Beautiful eight-legged lady\" || Photo by Andrew Rate","content":"\u003cp\u003e\"This beautiful eight-legged lady spent the best part of summer in our back garden. She made a new orb-shaped web every night (I understand that she eats the web in the early morning hours and sleeps the day away close to her web location, although I never was up early enough to see this). Spiders of this species (Eriophora transmarina) are quite large, and relatively common in Australia, and will bite when provoked. I used hand-held DSLR camera with inbuilt flash to take this photo, giving me nice detail o both spider and web and good contrast\".\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://unsplash.com/@andrewwrate?utm_source=kudos365\u0026utm_medium=referral\"\u003eAndrew Rate\r\n  \u003c/a\u003e\r\n  on \u003ca href=\"https://unsplash.com/t/nature?utm_source=kudos365\u0026utm_medium=referral\"\u003e\r\n    Unsplash\r\n  \u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"\"This beautiful eight-legged lady spent the best part of summer in our back garden. She made a new orb-shaped web every night (I understand that she eats the web in the early morning hours and sleeps the day away close to her web location, although I never was up early enough to see this). Spiders of this species (Eriophora transmarina) are quite large, and relatively common in Australia, and will bite when provoked. I used hand-held DSLR camera with inbuilt flash to take this photo, giving me nice detail o both spider and web and good contrast\". Andrew Rate\r\n  \r\n  on \r\n    Unsplash\r\n  \r\n","published_at":"2026-10-25T17:15:01-07:00","updated_at":"2026-10-25T22:37:50-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"PhotoShare","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297499-photoshare"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with PhotoShare on Kudos365. View their photo published Oct/25/2026 on Photography. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/9aa50536-7be1-4a0e-8b38-a178ac9b1a8b.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":2,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Photography","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/918-photography"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213279-beautiful-eight-legged-lady-photo-by-andrew-rate","headline":"\"Beautiful eight-legged lady\" || Photo by Andrew Rate","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/9aa50536-7be1-4a0e-8b38-a178ac9b1a8b.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"PhotoShare","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297499-photoshare"},"datePublished":"2026-10-25T17:15:01-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":2}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Photography","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/918-photography"}]}}