These are some shots of a Black and Yellow Garden Spider. Depending on where you are it may have a different "common name". Its scientific Latin name is Argiope aurantia, which translates to "gilded silver-face". You can make out the "gilded" face on it's head area, or cephalothorax. Arachnid have a fused thorax and head. This gal is about 1 inch long. I shot these hand held with an EOS R5 mark II and RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM lens at MFD.
This first one is almost the full frame, but cropped just a bit. Please click the preview images to get a higher res image.
This one is cropped into the cephalothorax so you can see the "gilded silver-face".
This is a crop of the "stabilimentum", which is a structure made of silk that is common to this species and sometimes referred to as a "zipper" because of it's zigzag pattern. Typically You can see the zigzag, but this one's kind of hectic. There is a debate as to why the spiders build them or what it is for 🤔
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