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Eight-Legged Dustbunny by `exor:iconexor:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Invertebrates

©2005-2009 `exor
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who said dust bunnies have to be inanimate?
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manual focus, about 5cm away or so
6 seconds @ f2.8
natural colours, only edits are: cropping, resizing, removal of one very distracting piece of dust on the left, and 180° rotation (originally, the spider was upside down. a friend suggested that it looked funny that way and upon rotation it came out looking threatening and scary, and was kept as such ;)).
border is the dusty out-of-focus background from another one of the 15 pictures i took for this shot (focus was a bitch! low light and autofocus wasn't picking the spider up.. my eyes were having trouble seeing it too).
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found this little guy in a cobweb it'd made for itself between my phone cord and the ground. the spider is about a centimeter wide as it appears in this picture.
3rd spider i've killed in my apartment today, 4th in the past 2 days ever since i found what i presume to be its mother crawling across my floor. HUGE spider. scared the crap out of me. that's another story.

hopefully i won't find very many more.. :(

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~beard0 Nov 26, 2005, 4:48:21 PM
I saw it and went oh-no, not more spiders for Sim. So this guy was granted a few more minutes of life for a pre-mortem photo op?

The colours are quite pleasing... and they sort of remind me of ubuntu. :D I always like the border you do for your pictures.

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"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to."
-Albert Einstein
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`exor Nov 26, 2005, 5:02:49 PM
actually this guy was given about a month. i found the cobweb back in october but didnt see any spider on it, shrugged and said whatever he's on the other side of the room from where my bed is.

and then after the spider from a few days back i gave a closer look and found the little spider there, but still didnt care enough to kill it; it seemed harmless and definitely was.

i found another spider in my living room today from a different species (if you read my LJ today i've got 2 pics up). then i started looking at pictures of spiders to both identify it and send them to liz, with whom i was having a convo about spiders with at the time. then i found a picture with a big daddy longlegs, pretty much the same one that was in here a couple of nights ago, surrounded by dozens of its kin. and i realized those little spiders were exactly the same as the little spider next to my dresser, so i was like ahhhhh the big spider already had its kids! so i went and killed it + another one i found next to my bed, and im sure there's many more to be found

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~power666 Nov 29, 2005, 3:22:35 PM
Probably a bad thing to mention that spiders lay eggs in the hundreds.
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~cottser Jun 24, 2006, 7:08:45 AM
Very impressive shot, I like that you included the size of this guy. I like the colours, looks almost inverted. Funkay.
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`exor Jun 24, 2006, 12:41:10 PM
if you invert the colours it looks like a black spider on snow ^_^

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~adysokk Jan 1, 2008, 6:30:06 AM
A song appeared in my mind, "Boris, the spider":)

Nice colours:)

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