25 Sep, 2008
up close and personal with your larger-than-average garden spider
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Photography
This guy is living in our front garden :
(Is that creepy or what?)
Partway through our photo session I decided to spray some mist on his web to see what kind of photo I could get.
It sure looked pretty. But wait! The spider suddenly started to move around. I prayed he was not some kind of jumping spider.
I leaned in (yes, LEANED!) to get a closer look and realized he was combing the water off of his body and drinking the droplets.
You’ll have to click on the image below to get all the, ahem, hairy details because I uploaded it full size.
Interesting to look at, but kind of gross all the same, isn’t it?