Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (20)
jayfar
A beautiful shot of this fat little spider.
giulband
Wonderful and perfect macro photo !!!
Juliette.Gribnau
superb shot !
miwi
Klasse macro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Faemike55
Fabulous macro I don't dare show my boss this photo - She'd freak out
ArtistKimberly
Fantastic detail,
jendellas
Wow, she is a big spider, super shots.
awjay
incy wincy
wysiwig
An excellent close up. It does look like a bunch of twigs attached to a medicine ball.
blinkings
What a beauty, who I bet BITES!
irisinthespring
Huge spider, makes my skin crawl, but great capture of it...:))
CavalierLady
Yikes, what a shot! Does not look as friendly as a jumping spider. I would have to steel myself to photograph one like that!
Star4mation
Sure looks like a False Widow, Andrea ( Steatoda grossa in this case ) They were first recorded in the UK (Torquay, Devon), back in 1879 and they're still here! I saw one only last week :)
durleybeachbum
Brilliant, Thankyou so much! Another chap on Flickr thinks the same , so S grossa it is!
wscottart
also looks like a brown widow https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=brown+widow&view=detailv2&&&id=4FAC5E8CF3EE16DF77DC241BF7613C8D5DC16593&selectedIndex=22&ccid=ij3Znm0k&simid=608053140738999066&thid=JN.wtHHcG1O0P9MaTFZKLaNKQ&ajaxhist=0
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Katraz
Nice macro it looks a bit like the tick that I had to get out of Freyas eyebrow.
MrsRatbag
She is fat indeed, and so shiny! Great find!
Glendaw
What a perfect macro shot ! I'm guessing it is more afraid of me than me of it but----sure am happy we don't have these in our area !
moochagoo
Very creepy in a certain way.
danapommet
Two excellent macros and she looks well fed!