Many spiders are able to spin webs across surprisingly wide gaps between plants by releasing fine strands of silk into the air. These drifting threads, known as ‘bridge lines’, are carried by even the slightest breeze until they catch onto nearby vegetation. Once anchored, the spider carefully tightens and reinforces the line, creating a strong framework suspended between stems, branches or grasses. From this foundation it builds the rest of the web, by finishing the central joining threads with sticky silk.
Sophie Carr is a London-based photographer, specialising in landscape and seascape photography in Iceland. Having travelled extensively around the world, her true photographic passion is winter Icelandic landscapes.
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