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| Evolution104 |
Someone had a bad day...In life there are winners and losers - I hope never to lose like this
This was a big spider! Its body is about half the size of a golfball I'd guess - made it easy to spot. If you think I should have gotten closer with my 35mm macro, you're crazy Shot with my 150mm + 1.4x teleconverter from a safe distance.
When I first spotted it (did not have my camera with me), the wasp was still alive and visible. A few minutes later - all wrapped up in a nice neat package. |
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| hil26 |
Cracking shot John - any idea of the sort of spider it is? - not one to pick up I expect. | ||
| the neepster |
That's one heck of a spider - nicely photographed. I like your choice of frame. | ||
| Evolution104 |
Thanks Dave. It's an Argiope aurantia (black and yellow garden spider). Apparently harmless to people. The female is much larger than the male. I guess I've only seen the males before this. She was big enough to spot from many feet away! |
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| Evolution104 |
 Many thanks!
I've had a couple of comments on this framing, and I'm starting to use it often. So I've written a photoshop action to do it for me. The one downside of an action is that it doesn't do a good job of changing options when the image size changes. So I will make two for the common sizes I post to the web. Now it just takes one click and I'm done! 
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| creators |
Wonderful shot John. I am so spider phobic it took me a while to spend some time with this shot, but it is an incredible capture, well done. | ||
| Evolution104 |
Thanks for the kind comments Keith. Spiders are high on my list of phobias also - I squash first and ask questions later. As I learn more about them, I try to be more tolerant as long as they aren't poisonous and not inside my house - still a zero tolerance policy there! Using a telephoto on this shot kept us at a respectful distance! 
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