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11-JUN-2005 ©Mike Curtis

Wolf Spider

These were taken one night in my backyard. I had someone shine a flashlight on the spider so I could get sharp focus. The spider is a little smaller than a US Quarter. All taken with the Panasonic Lumix FZ20 and a Nikon 6T closeup lens. Also used a Sunpak 383 with Stofen Omnibounce diffuser with the head angled at 60 degrees to shine the light from above. While shooting the first one, a smaller wolf spider walked in front of the bigger one, and I found out that they are cannibals.... You can see in the first three images the smaller wolf spider in the bigger one's fangs. Too cool.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20
1/60s f/8.0 at 54.0mm iso80 with Flash full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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