I had to take shots of a brown recluse spider for advertisement purposes at work. These spiders are quite common around here, and when they infest home, they wind up everywhere. This one is a large male
Thanks very much! More to follow....
speedlight used is the sb600 with a homemade diffusr
another short series, this time with the daring jumping spider
I believe she is phidippus regius. I ordered her up from Florida from the phids.net web site and kept her quite a while. She is a beauty and thanks for your kind words
I took these some time ago and thought I'd share them.
Nikonian72, I want to thank you for the Fast Stone image software. It's an excellent program and simple to use. Kudos to you!
More pics from the university of Missouri extension center
This season was terrible on the damselfly population. They were there but were hard to find due to the flooding throughout the Ozark system. These are from last year
I've been looking for a crab spider for months...finally found one!
These two little guys knew how to pose
It was early morning and the droplets were already there. Normally you can't get one to sit still