Crab spider

I wasn't around here for ages. It looks like it's still a healty place . It's good to see some activity in ESS also, but I'll play safe first time around: this is female Misumena vatia crab spider. It was a fun releaf from my usual landscape stuff.

1DS with 180 macro lens, tripod

Cheers,
Marko

I'm not at all sure this works for me Marko.
I don't think the straight ahead view is showing us what the spider looks like too well.
I do like the setting and the colours though.

Cheers

Interesting and very well camouflaged little creature, but I agree with John in that something isn’t working but I can't put my finger on it. To me it does seem to work better if you crop to square so that you get most use out of the strong diagonal of the legs.

Please do post some of your landscapes – it would be great to see them. Tristan

i like it, it shows behaviour, putting the 'arms' up like that, which i guess is why it's called a crab spider. if you shot from above you would lose that perspective. like the dynamic angle too.

mark

Certainly illustrates the camouflage of this spider well!

David

I really like this one Marko, the image of the spider is spot on in a classic crab spider pose. Aesthetically, I think that shaving about and inch off the lhs would make it even better.

Malcolm

Hi Marko,

Glad you're still around - hope you're keeping Guy in order when he visits

The shot shows the spider & camo nicely, but the flat lighting doesn't do you much favour. Maybe a small reflector would be useful to push some direction light on to it?