Sunday, 1st May 2011
Peeking Out
by D. Robert Franz
A jumping spider peaks over a flower petal on a prickly pear cactus.
Equipment: Canon 40D, EF180mm F3.5L lens
D. Robert Franz
D. Robert Franz has been a full time professional wildlife photographer for 25 years. With formal training in wildlife management and geology he has extensive knowledge of the natural world. His photography has been extensively published worldwide. His images have been featured in, Audubon Magazine, National Wildlife, Sierra Magazine, Defenders Magazine, National Geographic, Das Tier Magazine, and many more. Robert’s prints have hung in the Smithsonian. Robert is also an accomplished assignment photographer. Clients have included Adolph Coors, Wildlife Conservation Society, Field & Stream Magazine, The Trust for Public Lands, Via Magazine, and many others. Robert has won many awards for his photography. In 2001 and 2004 Robert had winning images in the “Nature’s Best” photography contest. In 2006, 2008 & 2010 Robert finished 2nd in the Images for Conservation l Pro Tour of Nature Photography contest. This is the world’s richest photo contest. In 2007 Digital Photography Magazine proclaimed Robert as one the world's best wildlife photographers.
Website: www.franzfoto.com
Peeking Out by D. Robert Franz was photo of the day on Sunday, 1st May 2011. It is tagged Flower, Macro, Spider. You can leave a comment below.
18 Comments
Terri
I never thought that a photo of a spider could be adorable! Gray & yellow–very interesting. The deep yellow really highlights the little guy quite nicely.
Taji Guo
Cute!
peter
nice the eyes !
art x
its a wonderful image. clean crisp lines tonal range and well composed. nicely done indeed
Richard Peters
Lovely image, which I don’t say often about spiders as I hate them lol. Hope you’re keeping well buddy, I still haven’t finished processing my YNP images from back in Jan! Maybe see you again in the future
Rajib Singha
Good shot Robert!
fiona peters
That photo is just gorgeous even for an arachnaphobe like me. Love to have it on my wall.
deb
adorable – beautiful photo
Helen Hart
Haven’t met one of these…cute! I’ll look closer at my prickly pears…
D. Robert Franz
Thanks Richard,
Just finishing up winter YNP images and now I’ve gone to AK for eagles and have another 15000 imgaes to sort.
Marie Dunphy Harding
The brilliant yellow pops the little creature! Who knew a spider could look this cute?
Patrise
I dont often find spiders adorable, but this one is very appealing. gorgeous!
Jack Graham
Awesome! This is now my desktop screen and I snuck it in to my PowerPoint Slides for class with mixed reactions from “Awww, cute” To “Uuuugly!” and “Why does he have such a big frown? Doesn’t he like Geometry either?”
This picture is really awesome when blown up to 5 feet by 4 feet.
Peggy Solovyov
Harmless as he looks…at least to 2-legged animals. I love this picture!
Pauline Jones
I love this one; unlike most people I really like spiders.
Gouldkb
For a spider he is cute. I’d be afraid he would jump on me LOL. Great shot and I love the color of the flower petal. I think he was a little afraid of you
ggriffin
Clever and colorful! Looks like Kilroy was here!
Michael Leather
It freaks me out but its such a good image can really feel the spider is climbing over the flower to get me!