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Eight legs - Arachnids

Challenge #1 in the Bexter's challenges series. Hosted by Bexter.

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Submit your best picture of an arachnid with 8 legs. Crabs, Octopus's and other eight legged animals not allowed. Anything in the Arachnid family is ok - Spiders, Scorpions tick's etc. Please give any information you have on what the arachnid is, where it was taken and any interesting stories about getting the photograph.

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Announced:

Wednesday, 13th May, 2009 (GMT)

Submissions:

Wednesday, 20th May, 2009 – Tuesday, 26th May, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Wednesday, 27th May, 2009 – Tuesday, 2nd June, 2009 (GMT)

Processing rules:

No HDR - Single images only
Cropping ok
Basic post processing ok (sharpening, colour, contrast etc)

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

1 entry per user
Try to state what the picture is of (not expecting latin names but a little information is good if you have it)
Arachnids only (Spiders, Scorpions, Tick's etc)
No other eight legged animals (Crabs Octopus's etc)

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Maximum number of entries in challenge:

500

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Actually I found this Daddy Longlegs on a brown almost dead leaf and carried it to this one by a stick. The spider was exploring the leaf but never left the top of it. I was on a class trip and trying to keep balance on a slippery log worried about the spider than my own footing. I don't like spiders everyone was wondering what all the chaos was about. Its funny what we will attempt do to get a good shot. Sorry I didn't look at all these spider shots especially not the tarantulas shivvvers.

Camera:	Sony Alpha DSLR-A700
Lens:	Sony Ziess 16-80 zoom
Submitted:	Monday, 25th May, 2009 20:22 (GMT)
Taken:	Thursday, 17th July, 2008
Focal length:	80 mm
Shutter speed:	1/80 sec
Aperture:	F4.5
ISO:	160
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