About 4 weeks ago when I was rebuilding our garden, I found a semi good size wolf-spider (The big-ass ones you find in the bath that run around like Rooney in the Prem lmao!)
Any way, I thought i'd move him out of the way so I didn't kill it. I put it in a whole on an old victorian wall we have running down the side of the garden. I then fitted a sheet of trellis to the wall a day or 2 later and noticed he built himself a really nice home. So every time i found a daddy-long legs or beetle or fly or whatever, i through it in the web.
Well yesterday was the first time I had seen it in 4 weeks and bloody hell.... It's by far the biggest spider in the wild i've seen in this country. I obviously could get the measure on him lol, but it would easily fit my palm from one side to the other with its legs.
Now for the pics. I took about 50 shots to get these 3 good ones as it was hard to try and get the lens close enough without messing up the shot, good old macro lol. Right, if your a bit freaked by spiders, prepare to have chills, I know I did yesterday when it came running out of it's hole lol:-
This shot was using the macro and came alot better:-
Now this last shot is the one i'm proud of for detail, depth perception and lighting but it took along time to get with alot of patience. Not perfect but bloody good considering i was putting the lens into a hole in the wall lol:-
I'm waiting for the next good shot now as I want to show the size of it's fangs as they are massive lol.
Any way, I thought i'd move him out of the way so I didn't kill it. I put it in a whole on an old victorian wall we have running down the side of the garden. I then fitted a sheet of trellis to the wall a day or 2 later and noticed he built himself a really nice home. So every time i found a daddy-long legs or beetle or fly or whatever, i through it in the web.
Well yesterday was the first time I had seen it in 4 weeks and bloody hell.... It's by far the biggest spider in the wild i've seen in this country. I obviously could get the measure on him lol, but it would easily fit my palm from one side to the other with its legs.
Now for the pics. I took about 50 shots to get these 3 good ones as it was hard to try and get the lens close enough without messing up the shot, good old macro lol. Right, if your a bit freaked by spiders, prepare to have chills, I know I did yesterday when it came running out of it's hole lol:-
This shot was using the macro and came alot better:-
Now this last shot is the one i'm proud of for detail, depth perception and lighting but it took along time to get with alot of patience. Not perfect but bloody good considering i was putting the lens into a hole in the wall lol:-
I'm waiting for the next good shot now as I want to show the size of it's fangs as they are massive lol.
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