Grilled Spider

This little arachnid was hanging out on our porch last week. I placed a black felt box behind the spider to get nice high contrast in the web. The spider was less than 1 inch long. He had a terrific web built between our grill lid and side plate. The web was destroyed in order for us to eat dinner.

This photo was taken about 6 inches away from his web. If you look closely, he only has 7 legs (missing a front left leg)! The 7 legs appear on all the photos I took. He seemed to have no problems spinning his web without that 8th leg.
Shot with
- Nikon D700 camera, 105mm f/2.8mm VR macro lens
- 105mm, f/8, 1/160 sec, ISO 800
Processed with
- Lightroom 3.0 (basic raw import processing)
- Photoshop to crop