The price of pollen

DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
edited March 24, 2007 in Holy Macro
There's just no such thing as a free lunch -unless you're a spider...

Canon Xti + 100mm macro lens + 37mm of extension tubes + MR-14 ring flash set to a 4:1 ratio. Manual mode 1/200, F11, ISO 100.

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  • coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2007
    Hehehe, nice! That guy sure blends in.
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2007
    coldclimb wrote:
    Hehehe, nice! That guy sure blends in.

    When I first saw it I wondered why that fly was digging it's head into the flower. Only after looking through the lens did I realize that a crab spider had it in a head lock... eek7.gif
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2007
    Amazintg camouglage on the crab spider- great captures by all concerned :)
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2007
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Amazintg camouglage on the crab spider- great captures by all concerned :)
    Brian V

    Thanks Brian! That fly didn't stand a chance...
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2007
    Dalantech wrote:
    There's just no such thing as a free lunch -unless you're a spider...

    Canon Xti + 100mm macro lens + 37mm of extension tubes + MR-14 ring flash set to a 4:1 ratio. Manual mode 1/200, F11, ISO 100.

    Another frame:

    Hi Dalantech, I saw one of those Crab spiders on the same kind of plant in Ohio and it was eating a Bee, I didn't see the spider at first, but I did notice the bee hanging in a weird position, that's the only thing that drew my attention to it.

    He got a nice sized feed in that fly thumb.gif
    Great Capture clap.gif ..... Skippy
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2007
    Skippy wrote:
    Hi Dalantech, I saw one of those Crab spiders on the same kind of plant in Ohio and it was eating a Bee, I didn't see the spider at first, but I did notice the bee hanging in a weird position, that's the only thing that drew my attention to it.

    He got a nice sized feed in that fly thumb.gif
    Great Capture clap.gif ..... Skippy
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    Thanks Skippy!
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  • JDollDesignsJDollDesigns Registered Users Posts: 35 Big grins
    edited March 22, 2007
    alright.... Spiders are my weakness. I LOVE them!!! yay! Great shots!!! I love spiders... well shooting them anyway... they get near me... that's another story. ha ha.:D
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    JDollDesigns wrote:
    alright.... Spiders are my weakness. I LOVE them!!! yay! Great shots!!! I love spiders... well shooting them anyway... they get near me... that's another story. ha ha.:D

    I'm the same way! I've got no problems shooting a scene like that one, but as I walk away my skin starts to crawl... :puke1
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  • JDollDesignsJDollDesigns Registered Users Posts: 35 Big grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    Dalantech wrote:
    I'm the same way! I've got no problems shooting a scene like that one, but as I walk away my skin starts to crawl... :puke1

    Yes!! Or if it launches at you or jumps on you... I tend to freak out! I had a meesly grasshopper jump on me and I didn't expect it too and it wouldn't jump off me! I'm just glad it wasn't a spider.
    "Johannah, your going down a one way road."
    "No I'm not.... Ooh yes I am. Crap."
  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    JDollDesigns wrote:
    Yes!! Or if it launches at you or jumps on you... I tend to freak out! I had a meesly grasshopper jump on me and I didn't expect it too and it wouldn't jump off me! I'm just glad it wasn't a spider.

    Laughing.gif! I've had dragonflies land on me, and once a jumping spider leaped onto my lens...
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  • JDollDesignsJDollDesigns Registered Users Posts: 35 Big grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    Dalantech wrote:
    Laughing.gif! I've had dragonflies land on me, and once a jumping spider leaped onto my lens...

    Jumping spiders are cute. I'm not afraid of them.... wow, I just said cute and spider in the same sentence. ha ha. Yeah, you gotta love it.
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  • djamesdjames Registered Users Posts: 237 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    JDollDesigns wrote:
    Jumping spiders are cute. I'm not afraid of them.... wow, I just said cute and spider in the same sentence. ha ha. Yeah, you gotta love it.

    Unless they are the variety my daughter showed me in Tiawan. They are about the size of a large man's hand and can jump 3-4 feet in the air.
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2007
    Those are pretty amazing shots! That spidey is exactly the color of the flower! Do they change colors like chameleons??? Verrrry coool! :D
  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2007
    saurora wrote:
    Those are pretty amazing shots! That spidey is exactly the color of the flower! Do they change colors like chameleons??? Verrrry coool! :D

    They do change color but I've only seen yellow (most common), black, and brown (least common). After a little while they will take on the exact shade of the flower they are on...
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  • ZygoteZygote Registered Users Posts: 128 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2007
    Nice captures! I took a similar picture the other day. Only this one is on my jeans.
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2007
    Zygote wrote:
    Nice captures! I took a similar picture the other day. Only this one is on my jeans.

    Nice fly shot :)
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