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Much to my mother's dismay, I collected spiders during my youth in Illinois. I would catch spiders, put them in a box with a screen top and then catch gras...
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Much to my mother's dismay, I collected spiders during my youth in Illinois. I would catch spiders, put them in a box with a screen top and then catch grasshoppers to feed them. I was intrigued with the way the spiders would wrap their prey in silk. That fascination has continued now for 60 years.
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Canon EOS-1D X

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 800 Shutter 1/160 Focal Length 100/1

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Aug, 2018

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