
Here's a closer view, made from a crop of the first image.

This is a field-shot stack with considerable post-processing.
The original stack was shot with a Canon A710 IS compact camera, hand-held against one rock while crouching on two more, tweaking the focus button with an otherwise unoccupied thumb.
What's shown here is the result of four frames -- one for the slightly OOF background and three more for the subject.
I stacked all four frames in Helicon Focus, using the background image as the master for auto-alignment. HF did a good job putting together the subject but (as expected) completely scrambled the background by merging it with other frames that were even worse OOF. Then in Photoshop I added a copy of the original background image and manually painted a mask to merge it in, covering the scrambled portion. This was easier to do in Photoshop than in Helicon Focus because the mask allows nondestructive editing. I also selectively lightened the foreground, using a levels adjustment and a gradient mask, because otherwise it was way too dark compared to the sky.
The second image has had some additional levels adjustment, and I reduced the saturation because, well, I thought it looked better that way.
In the end, they're not great images, but I'm fairly satisfied given the circumstances. I hope some of you enjoy them also.

One point of interest that you might otherwise overlook... See those long skinny tendrils sticking out front, the ones that look like antennae? Most of them are actually the linings of tracheae -- breathing tubes attached to the spiracles. The linings are shed along with the outer skin, as part of the normal molting process.
--Rik
Edit: to fix typo.