Strictly a grab shot. I was writing some stuff to post elsewhere, and just when I got to the part about how spiders generally don't jerk my "fight or flight" strings anymore, this little guy popped in. I thought it was amusing.
By the way... You may have noticed there's nothing approaching "white" in this image. This bothers me from an aesthetic standpoint, but it's correct and it's unavoidable. That nice "white" that monitors put out is actually just well balanced spots of red, green, and blue. Look at the screen through a magnifying glass, and it looks like this.
Another amusing observation... By unaided eye, the vertically oriented legs of the little fellow were brightly colored -- and the color depended on where my eye was! Move the head, flash the legs -- quite trippy!
You can see what was happening, in the picture above. The legs are just about two phosphors wide. If they covered up red and blue, as shown here, what's left is green -- "Look, Ma, green legs!". Change the parallax a little, they cover up green and blue, and now it's "What the heck, red legs?!"Sorry...I'm easily amused.
--Rik
Technical: Canon SD700 IS in macro mode, ISO 80, auto everything else. Photoshop says 1/30 sec, f/2.8.
