Yes, James, I tried. But I have a "frozen shoulder" that just physically doesn't allow me to get as close to the ground as I would like, and I couldn't find my wee tabletop tripod that would have held the camera. Normally in a case like this I would just lay down on the ground and shoot, but I can't lay face down these days and use the camera. I did prop the camera on the bag and tried a few shots, but my arm was shaking, those shots are blurred. Argh! The spider itself was just a little guy, less than a half inch across, so I would have needed to get very close. It was just killing me because it was so cooperative. The lighting was poor, overcast cloudy day, just grayed out the colours. It's cold tonight, if I'm awake early enough tomorrow morning and if the sun is out and it warms up like they're promising, I'll drag myself back up in the woods and see if it's still there, try to shoot it before the sun evaporates the water droplets.
Excellent as well. My same complaint stands, though, about wanting more saturation. Great work. Keep it up. I notice that both of these are pretty strait on. Did you shoot any from oblique angles?
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