Backyard safari

Challenge #2 in the Simon's Series series. Hosted by Simon Joinson.

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Capture a shot of the fauna and/or flora in the immediate vicinity (outside) of your home - be it a garden bird, winter flower or the morning dew on your lawn.

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Announced:

Monday, 22nd December, 2008 (GMT)

Submissions:

Monday, 29th December, 2008 – Sunday, 4th January, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Monday, 5th January, 2009 – Sunday, 11th January, 2009 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Colour correction/saturation adjustments only
No HDR
No cropping allowed

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Any camera
Any lens

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

500

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Jumpspider on watt

by Rickard Hansson

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Small, very small jumpspider sitting on wall at home. Their reaction is very fast, even the small preflashes from my flash made them jump back before the actual shots were taken. But i managed to get at least a few good shouts.

Camera:	Nikon D300
Lens:	Sigma 150mm macro + ext. tubes
Submitted:	Monday, 29th December, 2008 23:13 (GMT)
Taken:	Tuesday, 30th December, 2008
Focal length:	150 mm
Shutter speed:	1/250 sec
Aperture:	F5
ISO:	200
Notes:	Only resized in photoshop to better fit the 1 Mb limit for upload, no adjustments made otherwise.
Views:	252

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