Glowing spider
Melanie MacSmiley
Radioactive? Genetically engineered? No worries for Peter Parker here. This spider just got a good dose of direct flash in the middle of the night. (What, no red eye?)
This photo was one of those shots you never expect to see because it gets squeezed onto the end of a roll of film way after 36 exposures have been shot. (For those who have used only a digital camera, you have no idea what kind of ecstasy and depression can be caused by a single roll of film). In fact, I don't even remember getting a print for this photograph in the batch.
If I recall correctly, I shot this little guy through the glass of our living room window, with the lens + uv filter pressed flush against the window, shaded from the flash by a rubber lens hood. I found the exposure accidently when I scanned the negative a few evenings ago for a different photo altogether.
Taken with my Canon AE-1 in 1979 at the end of the roll of film I took at the "Living Hope" District Convention at Belmont Racetrack on Long Island. Kodacolor CII ISO 100, synced shutter speed 1/60.
"Looks like some exotic Ice Spider from Antarctica in July." — coalandice
#147 in Explore 8/21/2007.
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