Ever seen a 7-foot spider?

[jiminyClickit]

And 7-legged. This is hard to admit, but my camera takes better pictures than I do. The ones I set have a higher percentage of delete-for-humane-reasons than Auto Mode. Learning curve's on a mountain trail.

So this is low flash, Sport and Auto, Macro. Cropped post.

[Dan Rowe]

Jiminy, I like the brown throughout the image. I'm curious, what was the background in the picture? It almost looks like a photoshoped gradient...pretty cool.

[Saralonde]

Jim, what's with you and spiders lately ? Nice light background shows off his delicate legs and makes you aware of his missing one. I agree with Dan about the gradient background. Looks good with the monochromatic image.

BTW, if you haven't heard, cameras don't take pictures, photographers do ! The camera can't find the subject or compose it. And you do both very well.

[jiminyClickit]

Dan Rowe,

A light blue wall lit by 60-watt incandescent. Shadow is shade of light fixture.

Saralonde,

Opportunity knocked: the eggs hatched next to this light, so I got shutter-happy. And thanks for kind words.

[rachel]

Oh my Lord. That will teach me..(disappeared, running out of the room, shrieking)

[jiminyClickit]

rachel,

Is your monitor still in one piece? Was it something on the web?

You may not want to see "Visible Means of Support." It has all 8 legs and is not as cute as this one. Sorry about the running and shrieking.

[Christa]

I am gonna have to stop looking at your photos..they are giving me goosebumps and not in a that's an awesome picture kinda way

[purplepixie]

Per my comment on your other spidey pic - I like this background. Scrathes or web? Not sure whether it needs a clean up or not?
You may have noticed from my posts - got a thing for the crawlies too - let them roam free in my garden - the bunch of them - so much more fun to observe than run

[jiminyClickit]

purplepixie,

Some years back it became nearly impossible for me to kill mindlessly. No stepping on ants if I saw them, carrying bigger spiders outdoors, even raised some mice over one winter.

The webs are really messy; this is cleaned up some. No scratches.

[purplepixie]

Well, then I think the webs should stay - more natural. Mm... have some fieldmice in my ceiling too, way too fast to photograph - one day maybe.

It's a very freeing thing just to let all the creatures go their merry way - you don't have to fret about poisons, no guilt, and suddenly the garden seems to teem with life, birds, butterflies, lizards, geckos, frogs, spiders, bugs, a mole and the neighbour's big fat ginger cat