water web

Agreed. Water beads in webs make for optical fun. But you have to give this some thought. You can achieve sharp focus on the scene in the beads. Or you can focus on the web/ dew edges. Going somewhere in between doesn't work too well unless you back off a little and shoot at f16 or thereabouts, which would have worked with this image because of the plain background. I guess there is always focus stacking. Anyway, the contrast and pattern are striking.

John,
You can really see the weight of the water droplets distorting the web in this image and the reflections in the droplets are all identical and very uniform, very cool. The image is a bit soft however on my monitor.

Great "string of pearls shot", John. The raindrops on the web are such perfect little circles; I also like the varying sizes of these raindrops. Very nice comp you have found of this web. As far as softness, Robert gave some good ideas but sometimes those webs just don't hold still while shooting! Just takes the slightest breeze. . . I don't know how much post-processing you do but I think this particular image could be improved by adding more contrast and sharpening as part of editing. Very cool find!

I do like the way this looks like pearls, as Carolyn said, especially against the dark background.