Everyone in my family thinks I'm nuts crawling around the yard with my camera but I find it more interesting than crawling along the highway trying to get to where I could have photographed something if I had arrived earlier.
This spider is just over .5 inch long from head to tail end of egg sack. I can't hardly guess how small the babies are on her back but it looks like they are still coming. No population control there.
I have just started trying to photograph the wee creatures in the yard. After a few months of trying to make various lens I already owned work, I gave in and bought a Sigma 150mm macro lens. If the sun is out mid-day, like it was here, it allows me to get some keepers. But there is hardly ever enough light and never too much light. So I have ordered a flash unit. It isn't a real powerful light but, hopefully, it will be OK. Besides being lower in cost than the more powerful units, it weighs about 50% less. Weight has become a prime consideration for me the last several years.