This is the commonest and most well known of the Orb Web spiders..........and I found it, funnily enough, in my garden. I would have liked to have got an overhead shot, but it refused to cooperate. The background is a rather grubby panel on the wall underneath one of our back windows,.

Best viewed large if you can bear it..!!

I normally have dozens of these in my garden at this time of year, but this is one of only 3 or 4 I've seen so far :-(