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To all who took the time to comment: thank-you so much for your encouragement.
I would like to claim that capturing this was as difficult as some of you might think. But it really wasn't. The white background is the aluminum siding on our house. The spider has built a web from the trim around a window to the right, to the trim at an outside corner of the house on the left. The plane of the web is effectively parallel to the side of the house and just far enough away that selective DOF masks just how dirty our siding really is. The web is a little below eye height, so it's easy to set up a tripod to capture the shot.
The only tricky part was timing. I noticed this spider a few nights ago while barbecuing. The spider comes out for just a couple of hours at dusk and then retreats to a hiding place overnight. Between timing and weather, last night was the only opportunity to capture it so far. I used a single flash with umbrella, asit was effectively night. My neighbours probably wonder about my sanity, setting up all this gear to photograph the side of the house, but I've probably given them plenty of other reasons to wonder as well.
All the best,
Rich
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How did you isolate him from background? 
Great shot. Nice symmetry and great isolation.
