To find the spiderweb, I left class on Friday afternoon around 4pm and took a left out of the doorway, walked to the end of the hall, and took another left towards the stairs. Friday was a sunny day with a high temperature around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. I walked down one flight of stairs when I came to the back entrance of the Morrill Science Center. I took a left out of the doors and walked in the parking lot between shade tree lab and Morrill until I passed Morrill 2 and was in the small parking lot across from Morrill 4 South. On the opposite side of Morrill 4 South, there were 4 parking spots with a brown rock wall on one side. About 75% up the wall above the curb that lines the right side of the parking lot there was a spider web between two stones. The spiderweb was between the 9th and 10th stones, counted up from the curb. The spider web was attached to three smaller rocks and one bigger rock. There was a piece of tan material stuck within the spider web, making it stick out.
To take the first vertical picture, I got much closer to the web. Only the 4 rocks surrounding it and the full length of the web were shown in my photo I angled my phone’s camera directly at the web, from the left side. I made sure my phone was focused on the web and not on the rocks, so the left barrier rock was blurry in my image. Directly in the middle of the top quarter of the picture was the small tan filament. Where the middle rock in the photo turned was slightly right to the direct middle of the frame. The angle my camera was at makes the rocks look like they are pointing at about a 15 degree slant above the horizontal. The lower right hand side of the web has a light brown coating over part of the web.
I then began to make the map. Using scribblemaps.com I located the parking lot in which I found the spider web. I then began to label “Morrill IV South” at 42.390238005 degrees North and -72.524533868 degrees West. I did this by clicking the “abc” button in the top left corner and then putting the label in around the place I wanted it. Then, I clicked on the label and entered desired latitude and longitude. I followed the same process to label “Wilder” at 42.390352903 degrees North and -72.523756027 degrees West. I then labeled “Morrill II” at 42.389915101 degrees North and -72.524363548 degrees West. And finally I labeled “The University Club” at 42.389897272 degrees North and -72.523683608 degrees West. The resulting shape was a horizontal rectangle.
I then labeled the place in which I found the spider web. I searched for the University Club and a map of the area came up. I placed the gray cross directly in front of the red car in the set of 3 cars on the map. I then selected the small circle tool in the top left toolbar on the website. The area of the circle I put on the map was 85.71 meters squared with a radius of .01 km and a circumference of .03 km. At first, the circle showed up with a red outline and filled in green. I selected the eraser tool and clicked on the middle of the circle to erase the green and leave a red outline. To obtain the map I kept the cross directly in the middle of the circle and zoomed in all the way to that point. From there, I clicked the negative zoom button twice.
I then started the screenshot of the map by clicking Control+Command+4. I started my mouse in the top left corner just under the settings box and between North pleasant street and the sidewalk. I then dragged the mouse to the right over to Stockbridge Road. I then dragged the mouse down past the lower labeling of Stockbridge Road on the map. That saved the image to my desktop.
To take the third picture, I put my black sweatshirt down on top of the ledge and focused the camera so that the University Club was in the top right corner of the frame. The picture was vertical. The 5 windows on the northern facing side of the building were visible in the shot, but only one second floor window and one first floor window were visible on the Western facing side.The fence was also visible in the frame. While there was some space between the right end of the fence and the edge of the picture, the left side of the fence was not visible in the picture. There were 15 black fence posts visible in the frame with my black sweatshirt folded partially blocking the view of the bottom of two leftmost posts. Since I took the picture at a slight angle, the right hand side of the frame goes up to about the middle second floor window. The left hand side of the frame only goes up to what would be the equivalent of the top of the first floor of the University Club if a line had been drawn from the left top corner of the picture over to the house, running parallel to the brick wall. The bottom left hand corner of the picture was almost touching the bottom of the brick wall on that side.
I took the vertical pictures on an iPhone 6. I created the map with scribblemaps.com. I made the .png file with the pictures in Powerpoint.
Using Powerpoint, I dragged the three pictures onto one slide and organized them in the following order left to right: zoomed in web photo, map, and surroundings of web. I then deleted the existing text boxes. The pictures were aligned so that their size could be maximized while still being next to each other with a small margin. I made the two vertical photos the same size and centered them to the horizontal photo and I centered all of them to the middle of the slide. I then added small text boxes to the lower left hand corner of each photo. I made the zoomed in photo: A, the map: B, and the surroundings photo: C. I then highlighted each of the letters and clicked on the black A with the red line under it, making the letters red. I then clicked the insert tab and then shapes button to select the “right arrow” to point from the left side to the web. The size of the arrows in my photo was comparable to the size of one of the stones. I then selected the “down arrow” to point to the location of the spider web from above. I made the “down arrow” about the same size as the “right arrow”.
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