Tuesday 31 January 2012

A hollow victory

This is one of those pure chance shots, and again a case of  'the one you have' in terms of gear.
I was out walking and only had my Olympus TG310 with me;  a moderately basic compact camera. 

Apologies (again) for the eight legs, but in this case it's not actually a spider  but the spider's skin.  Similar to snakes (in a way), spiders outgrow their skins (or carapace, if you prefer) and have to shed it on a regular basis.  What we're seeing here is the empty skin of an Australian Huntsmen (Sparassidae family), nicely lit by the midday sun.

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