Spider on my deck

[alfredo]

Used a reverse ring on a Yashinon 50mm lens and extension tubes. I used the flash and found it worked well for this subject.

[GentryDixon]

1. Shiver.

I have always been fearful of spiders. I got bit by one when I was about 7 years old, and have never gotten over my angst.

After years I have been able to ignore them if they are outside. The rule in my house is if they are in my space, they are fair game, eyelashes or not. That rule being anything with eyelashes should not be hunted. I once had to replace the linoleum floor in a rental apartment because I used an oven cleaner to kill a spider. I was too afraid to get any closer than arms length.

[alfredo]

4. When I was a lineman I was up on a pole, strapped with my belt.

When you lean back a gap format between the belly and the pants. I opened an enclosure, a spider dropped out and into that gap. The bite was painful and left a big black blister right below where my belt usually rides. I have my spider issues.

[GentryDixon]

7. I understand.

I did have a rather pretty spider in my yarrow bush last summer I named Charlotte. I watched her until it was time to trim, then had my hubby move her down by the water. I did not see him do it, but he promised me he did not harm her.

[alfredo]

8. You ever try to move a jumping spider?

[GentryDixon]

12. No, never!

[alfredo]

13. They never go where you want them to go.

[Solly Mack]

2. She's a beauty!

[mnhtnbb]

3. Yuck! Nice photo, though.

I went to return a book at the library this a.m. and there was a colossal spider
right on the edge of the drive up book return. Keep saying I'm going to carry
my old camera in my purse--but I didn't have it--oh, well.

[alfredo]

5. If the camera has a macro mode, even better.

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Incredible shot.

You can see her making silk, although I do not see much else of the web.....and I assume the web is there.

Incredible, even if I do hate spiders.

[alfredo]

10. Thanks. She was in the process of making the web. I heard somewhere that some remake

their web every day.

[KC]

9. Oh

I thought about not clicking on this
because Im not fond spiders AT ALL lol
But I did and now wish I hadn't ..shiver!

[alfredo]

11. Glad I could get your heart beating.