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Long legs

by John Tobias

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted October 31, 201281 views5 comments
Found this spider on a leaf which had holes in it. The spider had a neat trick of going through one of the holes, to the underside of the leaf when I tried to photograph it, and then would pop back up.

Canon T3i
1/200 @ F-8 ISO 200
Canon EF-100macro 2.8 USM
Fill Flash

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by scott lanz on October 31, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Nice light on the Daddy Long Legs, John, and a good eye level perspective. I like the detail on the leaf as much as the DLL. Thanks for posting this for spider week.
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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on October 31, 2012 at 8:29 PM
John:
Reminds me of the film Wars of the World. The dark shadow on the leaf looks omnimous.
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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on October 31, 2012 at 11:30 PM
Nice daddy long legs! You did a good job getting most of the legs in focus and I like the fuzzy leaf 'perch'.
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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on November 1, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Wow, this is one of the nicest-looking photos of a harvestman that I have ever seen. My attempts to photograph them usually come out pretty ugly. Congrats on getting all those legs in focus, and still keeping the background nice and clean. The high-angle flash worked great here, too.

CONFUSING NAMES DEPT. Harvestmen, commonly called daddy longlegs, are only distantly related to spiders, but they are also arachnids, so most of us call them spiders. The only problem is that there are some real spiders that are called daddy longlegs, too (in the family Pholcidae, which includes many common "cellar spiders.") Common names are so confusing. That's why I often just call everything "critters."
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on November 3, 2012 at 3:44 PM
I too like your eye level perspective here, John. The details in the spider and leaf are excellent. Sounds both frustrating and fun, playing hide and seek with a spider.
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