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Absolutely - but the downside is the number of long, dingy, clinging webs that hang down like something out of a cheap horror movie
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Better than gnats biting you
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This is such a gorgeous male! I love the way you captured this, so that every hair on him is visible
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It was when I discovered the tripod was useful for such photographs. Spiders do lend themselves to its use - unlike the flying, or even crawling, insects
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Oh gawd, photographing anything with wings is such a pain XD
They never sit still!
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Have you tried dragonfly or humming bird hawk moths 
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Dragonflies I've been able to photograph; if you approach them slowly and from a very certain angle they'll sit still. Or just pin the damn thing [delicately] and hold it as you snap a photo XD
Hummingbird hawk moths....I don't think I've ever seen those before
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...in flight
Check out my "A fleeting visit..." and "Precision flying..."
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I really like the shadow!
Great poem, included.
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This shot shows the value of a tripod for macro photography. You can even see the strands of web over the shadow you refer to. I think all my other macro shots have been hand held and lack that total clarity
The problem is most bugs don't pose as motionlessly as this little fellow
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Great detail in this one, IMO. 
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I think it's like snakes - the venomous ones, that rightly have a reputation proceeding them, tend to influence one's view of all snakes, even the harmless ones. I'm sure it's exactly the same with spiders
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Wow, excellent focus on this! I'd never have suspected their joints would be blue.
A huge one of these has joined forces with a giant house spider to envelope literally an entire quarter of my bedroom in web...
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My wife would convert them into 'garden' spiders very quickly - at least she ejects them carefully
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Nothing wrong with that! Much better than killing them.
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I love tiny spiders. I'm okay with big spiders. I catch them and release them outside if I find them in my house.
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Best policy. They are welcome in our house (we have no dangerous spiders here of course) as they catch flies. The only downside is the occasional cobweb. I can ignore them more than my wife. She likes to evict the culprit forthwith...
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This is an a stunning shot of that spider! How you got that focus and DOF is just amazing!!
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It was a tripod shot with the spider stationary on the flat surface of its web. So it was 'still life' and I could ramp up the f number - luck was with me
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Well it is brilliant !!! I get frustrated with my tripod. Often by the time I've worked it out again and got it up, what I wanted to photograph has gone 
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That's the beauty of spiders they just sit for hours. The problem with that shot would have been loosing the sunlight. I know what you mean about the tripod though
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It was a nice spider friendly poem wasn't it
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I have awful arachnophobia, but this is an amazing photo It looks like a drawing
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They are not so frightening when you see all the fine detail - although the 'computer image size' spider might be a handful!
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I'm afraid even the smallest spiders
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You shouldn't be. There are so many spiders and the vast majority are completely harmless. Just look out for the odd one or two where the dangerous ones live! Stay safe...
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I love spiders! I save them before my 2 cats notice. I was lucky enough to own a rose hair tarantula when I was 10 yrs old, still miss him. I wish ppl would give them a chance. Also, my friend had scorpions
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Tarantulas are beautiful creatures. A friend of mine had one when I was a kid but my parents would only allow me stick insects
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Lovely photo! I have quite a few strung out all over the place. They will be vanishing soon as it's Autumn where I am.
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You are right, they do tend to disappear over winter even indoors...
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It's very entertaining watching a young spider in the corner of my study. A hunting variety so no web. She seems quite immobile and suddenly a midge flies by and she galvanizes into action, even hopping out on a thread after it if it tries to fly wide. Between her and the house geckos there is never a dull moment on the ceiling!
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Now there I am so envious. We've often met geckos and lizards on our foreign travels but the best we can do in the UK are the ceramic ones we've brought home and hung on the walls. Geckos are really cute but don't they take out the spiders as well as the flies
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The house geckos are not indigenous and they have been accused of spider gobbling but to be honest I have a house full of spiders and geckos. The gecks can't go upside down across the ceiling so the spiders sit where the gecks can't go. Plus some spiders are extremely fast, like the wall "flatties" and they can zig zag away like streaks of leggy lightning. Had one on the wall just the other night. The geckos won't attempt anything big, like the rain spiders, etc. We have a young girl rain spider just visiting for the first time, looks about a year old. She doesn't know us yet. They live for about three years and so the bigger older jobs get bored when we glass them and take them out. Newbie had hysterics 
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We met a rain spider when we were in South Africa. Not knowing what it was I gave it a wide berth but I understand they are reasonably harmless? My wife used the other bathroom...
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Although they can get very big and look really scary they are not venomous. They will bite only if terrified and you happen to disturb them. I was with someone who put his hand into the postbox one day and disturbed madam who was lurking in there among the post. She panicked and bit him and it didn't swell up and wasn't a pain trip, so it seems that rain spiders are just big scary house and garden friends. I do have a small fit if one happens to loom next to me. They do this. One minute there is nothing and the next you look round and there is Mama sitting on the wall right next to you because you have the reading lamp on. Enough to give you a stroke if you're not expecting it, and who is?
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Apparently the bite is compared to a bee sting. We are so lucky in the UK. One venomous snake of danger to young children and the elderly only, no venomous spiders and no threatening wild animals - unless you count being run into by a fallow deer when driving.
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Long ago the British Isles had its bears and wolves and raptors, its great forests and bogs and deep soul. I think this world still lingers, the way spirit of place does about abandoned houses, waiting to be reborn.
But that's just me
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Nice image but I'm afraid in reality only the raptors are left. The rest of the space is occupied by us
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Yes, that is a problem worldwide. It's why when there is no balance of predator and prey the environment goes to ruin. Yellowstone National park is a good example of what reintroducing wolves did for a thoroughly degraded habitat. I heard that they want to reintroduce the lynx to Britain?
(Just seen a hawk fly into a tree in the garden. Every feathered person is having hysterics, especially the doves and pigeons. Hawk has come by for his pound of flesh.)
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We just upset the balance of nature everywhere
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True. I think too many of us are unaware that we are part of that balance and part of nature. We just steam ahead, consuming everything in sight. The rhinos and elephants where I am are in dire straits now.
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Their plight was highlighted on our national news only a week or two ago by Prince William
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