Labyrinth spider (Agelena labyrinthica)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hand held, every now and again she would dart out when something had disturbed the exterior part of the web, you can make out the corpses of her victims around the funnel of the labyrinth.

Image input equipment model : E-M1X
Lens focal length : 60 mm
Focal length in 35 mm film : 120.0mm
Exposure mode : Manual exposure
Photographic Sensitivity : 250
Exposure bias : 0 EV
Exposure time : 1/40 sec
F number : F5.6
Flash : OFF

ACR + PSCC

[Ravi Hirekatur]

Image conveys the apt name very well! Very nicely framed by the funnel in the web. well placed subject. You have very steady hands to get such a sharp image to hand hold @ 1/40 sec.

Ravi, my hands are pretty stable but the image stabilisation on Olympus is beyond that of any other system.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Interesting image, Jon. I second Ravi's comments. Quite the web this spider weaves. Thank you for sharing.

[John Mack]

Well i can see why they call it the Labyrinth spider. Like the framing as is. A very neat frame overall.