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Water Spider (Argyroneta)

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Posted by John Robinson on May 26, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Water Spider (Argyroneta)
Water Spider (C)
Found this film scan whilst searching for pic requests. Made me realise how long it has been since I saw one of these.
Pentax S1A
Flash
Can't even remember how I did it !!
JohnR
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on May 26, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Really interesting shot, John. this is a species I've never managed to see (that's despite calling myself a spider specialist!). My only nit is the pale area filling the bottom right corner of the image, but I've never even tried aquaria shots and I'm sure it's very hard getting things looking natural!

Greg
Posted by Daniel Read on May 26, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Hi John,

I love it! It's great to see some of your more unusual stuff. Despite knowing about these, and looking for them, I've never seen a water spider 'in the flesh'.

Cheers,

Dan.
Posted by PhilH on May 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Excellent, definately different and a pleasure to view.

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on May 26, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Thanks all.
I agree it's very hard to get underwater stuff right because we all tend to use a silly blue or coloured background , ( and lovely goldfish bowl pebbles !! ) and they just dont look like that in real life. Mind you if we showed them as they are, then most folks wouldn't bother to look !
JR
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on May 26, 2008 at 1:29 PM
You all are right, this is amazing. :toast:
Congrats, John.
Cheers,
Bertl
Posted by jack chapman on May 26, 2008 at 2:58 PM
very interesting behavioural shot
Posted by John MacTavish on May 26, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Textbook quality stuff John.

John :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Colin Pickett on May 26, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Never seen one before, fantastic image.

Nice one John :toast:
Posted by Matt Cole on May 26, 2008 at 4:39 PM
very interesting John, always a pleasure to see something a bit unusual such as this.

Matt

Posted by eric weight on May 27, 2008 at 3:08 AM
That takes me back to my schooldays John, when my bedroom shelves were stacked with tankfulls of stuff like this. This one serves to remind me how long it is since I saw one.
A fine shot.
:toast: :toast: Eric
Posted by John Robinson on May 27, 2008 at 5:52 AM
Thanks again.
JR
Posted by Paul Inglis on May 27, 2008 at 6:39 AM
Hi John,

Fantastic close-up! Superb image!
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Posted by Andy Shepherd on May 27, 2008 at 9:06 AM


Very interesting shot John , never seen one so thanks for posting :toast:

Andy... :smile:
Posted by David Kjaer on May 27, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Excellent John!

David :toast:
Posted by Tom_W on May 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Excellent and different shot.