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    Roman Kurywczak
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    Taken in a local NJ park with the Canon Rebel and a 180mm Sigma macro lens and the Canon MT24 twin lights. ISO 200 at f22 and 1/100th of a sec.
    This is definitely nature at it's best/worst.
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    Roman

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    Robert O'Toole
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    I like the composition and the subjects are interesting. The spider is on an egg sac so I see what you mean about best and worst, life and death.

    I prefer balanced flash, in this case the flash is very strong. When I have used a twinlight in the past I always turn off one light, otherwise you get strange looking double shadows and double catchlights.

    Robert

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    Nice composition Roman. It would have been interesting to see another dragonfly of another colour with the spider. It may have added more contrast between predator and prey. Still a nice find.

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    Hi Roman,

    Very interesting shot! I like how it allmost seems as if the dragonfly is begging the spider to let her go....
    Would have preferred to get more of a sideview of this but i can understand that is not allways possible.

    Thank you for posting!

    Greetings,

    Jeroen Stel

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    Joseph Warfel
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    Roman,

    Nice shot. In case youyr interested the spider belongs to family: Pisuaridae (nursery-web spiders and this one- likely a "fishing" spider ) genus Dolemedes. Pisuaridae carry egg sacs by the fangs. If you see a spider carrying and egg sac "behind" attached to spinnerets it would be a Lycosidae (wolf spider).

    Regards,

    Joe Warfel

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