What is the difference to the previous pictures,
e.g. that one?
The photo was taken in the evening, where the web was already full of pollen. This is the origin of the yellow bubbles in the "sky".

juvenile crowned orb weaver (Araneus diadematus)

Vintage lens: Domiplan 2.8/ 50 Meyer-Optik Görlitz

The physical diffraction and light scattering effects on spider webs depend on many things, like incident light angle, thickness of the threads (and thus the spider species) and so on.

In addition, there comes the specific bokeh rendering of the lens used, which can lead to very surprising results. Im am showing only a few of many possible results here. BTW, the spider's name is "Emma", she is our new pet and lives on the balkony. She is really a very patient model :-)

Magnification approx. 1:1

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Make:	SONY
Model:	ILCE-1
Exposure:	0.01 sec (1/100)
ISO Speed:	100
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