The noiseless patient spider...

Handheld works if you're using flash!

I like this...I like it alot. It works for me.

Andy when I first saw it, I wondered if this was taken while it was climbing towards you on your chest. I'm with Dorothy, I like it.

Works for me, too! Love all that blurry stuff!

Thankyou all for your comments! Not using a tripod, focussing was extremely difficult and I had to resort to moving the entire camera closer and farther from the spider until it looked like I had the focus. Shot about ten frames, all are as blurry as this one. I wasn't going to enlarge any of them, but as they were on the same roll as something else I was enlarging tonight, I thought I'd try one. It seems it turned out to be a 'happy accident'!

Ps, Aggie, the spider was only a common garden Wolf spider and wasn't very large, only about an inch and a half across it's legs.

i really like this too!
(but i am sure you knew that already )

spiders really give me the creeps, and you've captured that creepyness perfectly!

-john

Thankyou John.