Arachnophobic's post

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A break from political issues and resisting the covid pest

An invitation to share one's collection of images of these often maligned creatures

Classic Australian Red Back Spider disturbed while i was disposing of old furniture

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Just the beginning - i usually take wild bird pics , but sometimes spiders present as interesting , macro-telephoto ?

with sometimes quirky effects

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Okay the subjects a bit blurk, but you take one he!! of a good photo

Did you check out papermoons links - interestingly terrifying. I am not scared of spiders as such, and I would never harm them, but blissfully happy they usually keep their distance LOL

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Yes , thanks for drawing my attention to those links - one of them was about a huntsman spider walking on a car and getting picked off by a magpie bird

The spider looks similar to my pic of a spider on a dark background , that was actually shot while also walking on the side of a car - do such spiders have affinities with motor cars ?

I had to extensively edit ie gamma etc my pic because was so poor in raw form

I will try to find the original image - that will show clearly was on a car

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The second link images are incredible - spider eyes , amazing

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The best of eyes in my collection is just a gleam

a local - rarely observed by day , emerges at night

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I put this in a spoiler coz I was expecting it, and I still jumped LOL

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[ambercat16]

Pic stolen from the Internet.......

Green Lynx Spider on a Texas Lantana flower

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My pics were stolen from my cameras