A brief outing

Photographing my favourite false black widow spider is quite a challenge. It's a magnificent creature, much bigger than most I've seen. It inhabits the kitchen window frame externally, and is extremely shy and reclusive. The only thing that will bring it out to play is a sprinkle of water onto its web which is strung between the window frame and window box. I am obliged to carry the camera in my right hand, which must also do the turning on, focusing and clicking, and spray the hose with the left hand. As you can imagine, this juggling act often leads to failure and a wet camera. The fickle lens often doesn't focus on the spider, who only stays around long enough to find out that there's no prey and swiftly returns to its window frame sanctuary as fast as it appeared. This time though, everything seemed to work like a dream and my spider friend even posed for a short while as the shot was taken.

Done