20 Amazing Water Webs

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Web in front of pink leaves
Image: Bill Tyne

Water is not only a necessity for all life; even its smallest form, the water drop, is an everyday source of beauty, for example when caught in a spider’s web. Let’s enjoy these stunning water tapestries found in our backyards.

Dew is easily caught in spider webs because it attaches to thin, exposed objects not warmed by ground sources. The surface of the spider’s web cools by radiating its heat while the moisture in the atmosphere condenses at a rate greater than it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets in the form of dew or rain.

Nature’s perfection:
Perfect spider web with drops
Image: Cloudzilla

Prettier than any diamond necklace:
Diamond necklace
Image: Noel Goodwin

Waterdrops reflecting the photographer’s ring flash:
Drops with flash reflection
Image: Gwponder

A nocturnal web concealing branches posing as bats:
Water web in the full moon night
Image: Logan Stromberg

Transparent burrow protection:
The burrow
Image: Jim Sneddon

Even a rusty nail, caught by a keen photographer’s eye, can be beautiful:
Rusty nail
Image: topher76

A string of pearls:
String of pearls
Image: Peter Shanks

Like a mirror shard with a leaf’s reflection, protected by barbed wire:
Mirror shred and barbed wire
Image: sayer

Nature’s perfect web of pink:
Web in front of pink leaves
Image: Bill Tyne

Water drops caught at the Watermark Tech Center in Grand Rapids, MI:
Water drops at Watermark Tech
Image: Matt Stangis

Chaos theory:
Chaos theory
Image: Becka Spence

Dynamic drops:
Dynamic drops
Image: Tiny Froglet

A filigree flower vase:
Branch framed by water web
Image: Jenny Downing

A hole in the web:
Hole in web
Image: Vince Wingate

Hanging the delicate wash:
Web on washing line
Image: John Haslam

Parking lot dropscape:
Dropscape
Image: gkat_26

A soft hammock made of water drops:
Drop hammock
Image: Mike Sowden

Flowers breaking through the web of droplets:
Flower web
Image: cocomocomo

A string of crystal balls:
Crystal balls
Image: joka2000

World wide web:
WWW
Image: Bala

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This post was written by:

Simone Preuss - who has written 189 posts on Environmental Graffiti.

Simone is a freelance writer, editor and translator. While living and working in Germany, the United States and India, she sampled environmental consciousness around the world. Environmental Graffiti allows her to reflect on the everyday madness that is life without taking it too seriously. For more of her writing, read her articles on Suite101.com or her blog, The Writer's Advantage.

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  1. Lea Says:

    These are stunning. The image by Noel Goodwin is particularly good.

    Simone, I wonder if you would mind if i direct your readers to an environmental beach clean up campaign that I’m supporting: by http://www.coronasavethebeach.org
    (apologies for the off-topic-ness of this)
    If any readers can help it would be very much appreciated.

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