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I'm actually quite proud of this one. I was sitting in the garden with my camera, and noticed this tiny spider making its way across my arm. I got this image one-handed, with the lens in MF.
Perfectly adapted to its coastal environment, this wolf spider (Lycosidae) blends into seaweed and broken coral fragments. A stealth predator hidden in plain sight on a beach in the Yucatán.
Last year, i found i smaller one in my garden. I hope this female will build an egg-sac.
More infos: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiracanthium_punctorium
While gardening, it is best not to have one of these critters crawling over your hand. I may just have screamed like a very small girl!
Taken by the light of our back porch. I'll have to try again if he's still there tomorrow morning.
Did I mention I don't like getting close to spiders?
(I had to fix it a little in iPhoto)
2 images used
1 focus on leges and 1 focus on body. Layered in Photoshop to have it all in focus.
1/15 sec
Manual
f/3.6
ISO 100
Focal Length 105mm
X:4256
Y:2832
Bottom view of Tropical Orb Weaver Spider Taken from front porch with flash. Neat spider, for several nights it comes back to rebuild web.
A spider I found while gardening. The hole that it is in is 10-12mm diameter. This is the full-frame image (no cropping, levels adjusted and resized for posting only). D300 using Sigma 105/2.8 macro on 68mm extension tube stack and off-camera SB800.
Taken by the light of our back porch. I'll have to try again if he's still there tomorrow morning.
Did I mention I don't like getting close to spiders?
(I had to fix it a little in iPhoto)