The Tween Part:

You tell me:

1) Gross no matter what?

2) Gross, kinda, but it's nature.

3) Gross, but killer shot!

4) Killer shot - too bad it's about nature.

5) Oh HELL NO you didn't just make me look at that thing! Nature SUCKS!

I'll tell you from my standpoint - if I happened upon a knitting/generic blog that showed this shot? I would hit the "unsubscribe" button so fast, their mousepad would still be quivering.

I only took the picture because it's a really great nature shot and looking through a lens is so much easier (to me) than seeing it in Real Life. Yeah. I know looking at this spider through my lens - getting close enough, framing the shot, blocking the lighting, yadayadayada, it's also real life and just on the other side of my camera. Believeyoume. I know.

It's something I cannot explain. There is a distance - a wall - a "something" that comes between me and my subject that works for me. It's how I can take picture after picture after picture of bass fish, live and in the flesh and within arm's distance, trying for stupendous shots. If that same said fish touches me? Or jumps out of the bag after the tournament? Freaks me the hell out.

Between me and my camera is a world apart from me and my day-to-day.


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