Green and crawly

A little earlier today I decided to shoot a few images of some cuttings I'd taken from a tree growing in my street...these are not those photos, I'll do a post about those at some later date, this post is about a little fellow who managed to come into my house aboard the cuttings I'd taken.

As I was taking the images of the plants in my lightbox I could see tiny little insects wandering around on them as I looked through the camera. I don't think I'd have been able to see them with the naked eye, but through the macro lens they were only just visible. I kept shooting and then, this bastard crawled out of one of the twigs. He wasn't all that scary though, it's just my first reaction when I see spiders because I don't like them. This one was tiny, super small in fact, and probably not dangerous like many of the others in Australia are.

Anyway, he was a restless bugger and didn't want to sit still but I managed to get a couple shots of him that seemed semi-decent and here they are.

I'm not a great photographer at the best of times and shooting things in macro that don't want to keep still is pretty challenging for me, but it was good to have the chance with this little fellow. At the end of the shoot, I took all of the cuttings I'd taken and placed them back in the tree I'd taken them from; yes I know they won't grow again, but I wanted this little guy to get back into the same tree I took him from...just in case he had a little girl spider in there he was sweet on. True love endures you know.

Here in Australia, we have some of the worlds most deadly and aggressive spiders and I do not like them one little bit, but we co-exist I guess and I've managed to go my entire life without being killed, so far. What about you, do you like spiders, hate them or don't have an opinion? Have you had one fall or crawl on you? This happened to me, a big fucken spider called a Huntsman, and it wasn't my finest hour. Feel free to comment with any spider stories you have if you're keen, I'll always respond.