Creepy Crawlies
By Lon Casler Bixby
27 Sep 2012
A Skull Spider is also known as a Cellar Spider or a Daddy Longlegs... but in this case the one forever guarding my front door turned out to be a Mommy Longlegs. After hours of trial and error, while standing on a ladder with my head and hands in the Arachnid's web and my eye to the camera, I finally got a few good shots of the mother with her freshly hatched babies held between her jaws. It was certainly quite a photographic experience... and I got some pretty cool, close-up, and very detailed shots using a Poor Man's Macro... but for days afterwards I felt like there were spiders crawling all over me.
3 responses
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Tomma Henckel gave props (29 Sep 2012):
Nice essay and wonderful photos. Hope you don't feel itchy anymore.
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Roxana Brivent-Barnes said (1 Oct 2012):
Simple, but perfect!
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nonie cajot gave props (29 Nov 2012):
Amazing how you get so close to that spider..Great capture!
