Green Lynx spider, Proffitt, Texas
Taken on one of our photo shoots along Wells East Road between Newcastle and Proffitt, here's a gravid Green Lynx Spider preparing an area to lay eggs. Being lurkers / pouncers that prefer to ambush prey, these spiders spin silk to construct safe secure places upon which to anchor an egg case. Here the spider is stuffed full of eggs... VERY fat, and will eventually lay eggs then wrap them in a messy brownish covering that blends in well with its surroundings. The camouflage is very good, to the point where it's unnoticed until after the female guarding the case is discovered.
This is a center crop of an anamorphic image taken with a Nikon D60, Nikkor-H 85mm f1.8 lens (focused at infinity),, with an Iscorama anamorphic lens (1968 version) on the 85mm, and a Sigma 1.6x close-up lens on the Isco. Lighting was provided by a Nikon SB20 Speedlight shot through a lens-mounted diffuser made from part of a bowl that comes in a Healthy Choice frozen dinner.
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Green Lynx spider, Proffitt, Texas
Taken on one of our photo shoots along Wells East Road between Newcastle and Proffitt, here's a gravid Green Lynx Spider preparing an area to lay eggs. Being lurkers / pouncers that prefer to ambush prey, these spiders spin silk to construct safe secure places upon which to anchor an egg case. Here the spider is stuffed full of eggs... VERY fat, and will eventually lay eggs then wrap them in a messy brownish covering that blends in well with its surroundings. The camouflage is very good, to the point where it's unnoticed until after the female guarding the case is discovered.
This is a center crop of an anamorphic image taken with a Nikon D60, Nikkor-H 85mm f1.8 lens (focused at infinity),, with an Iscorama anamorphic lens (1968 version) on the 85mm, and a Sigma 1.6x close-up lens on the Isco. Lighting was provided by a Nikon SB20 Speedlight shot through a lens-mounted diffuser made from part of a bowl that comes in a Healthy Choice frozen dinner.
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