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[Noob Saibot]

Reader,

So I have a fascination with spiders and snakes and I have been taking photos of them (for now only spiders) and wanted to share them. Below is a link that will take you to a section in my DeviantArt profile. Please enjoy and comment here or there.

Spider Photos (click me)

DeviantArt Gallery Update List

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09/12/2011--- Added 8 photos of a Black Widow spider; taken with a Sony Cyber-Shot camera.

Sample: Here is a quick sample of what you will find

(Sowbug Killer)

v/Respectfully,
Noob Saibot/Kage Kazumi

[madanchi]

oh my god that black widow looks huge man! If i saw that in my back garden, i'd take a few steps away from it XD I'll be getting a dslr with macro lense soon, so I could take some close up shots of spiders, could be interesting as I too have always liked them

[Chief]

All spiders deserve death. I squish them all. Ew, gross, nasty, asjadsbnasijdfnasd.

[Kiriashi]

>mfw you see a black widow AND its eggs and you don't immediately set all of it on fire.

Sweet pictures though.

[Chief]

btw, I found this mofo while weeding my grandmas garden, and squished the hell out of it. it was nasty.

[Noob Saibot]

Chief, on 13 September 2011 - 05:24 PM, said:

btw, I found this mofo while weeding my grandmas garden, and squished the hell out of it. it was nasty.

http://bugguide.net/...R7QBRG0FQLQ.jpg

Where you live, state, I could tell you what it is exactly.

[Chief]

Minnesota

[Joey]

.........Why did I come in here? T.T

[Noob Saibot]

Joey, on 13 September 2011 - 06:19 PM, said:

.........Why did I come in here? T.T

Only you can answer that.

[Tomo2000]

I have severe arachniphobia. But I guess thats what I get for living in Australia where the spiders can grow to the size of steering wheels... But amazing photos I had to muster the courage within me to click on this threat What kind of camera are you using, btw?

[Noob Saibot]

Tomo2000, on 13 September 2011 - 09:40 PM, said:

I have severe arachniphobia. But I guess thats what I get for living in Australia where the spiders can grow to the size of steering wheels... But amazing photos I had to muster the courage within me to click on this threat What kind of camera are you using, btw?

Sony Cyber-Shot, see here. However, when I paid for it it was only $495 with attachments my total became $1,100. It takes okay pictures, but I would like to upgrade to really get up close (like in their face up close).

UPDATE

I also added 5 new photos today: 3 spiders and 2 snails.

[Noob Saibot]

Chief, on 13 September 2011 - 05:47 PM, said:

Minnesota

Sorry it took so long...busy day.

Banded Garden Spider adults can be found from mid- to late summer through the first freeze. Egg cocoons are deposited in early fall and consist of several hundred eggs. The immature spiders emerge the following spring.

A behavioral study of web construction determined that the majority of Argiope trifasciata orient their webs along an east-to-west axis. The spiders hang head-down in the center of the web with their abdomens facing south. Since the underside (venter) of the spider is mostly black, the orientation of both web and spider is believed to maximize solar radiation for heat gain—an important consideration for spiders that are active late in the year.

Similar to their cousin Argiope spiders, the banded garden spiders are not known to be medically important. It is unlikely that bites would occur unless people handled a female with an egg cocoon in the web. Even then, the bite would likely cause no more discomfort in most individuals than that of a wasp or bee sting.

~~Reference: here

[madanchi]

for close up shots, what you'll be looking for is a macro lens, although macros can go from £100 all the way up to £2000

edit: can't quite remember why I said that now as those are nice close shots

with a macro lense you could get detail like this below

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Edited by madanchi, 16 September 2011 - 10:33 PM.