Posted by mark on Oct 05 2015 in Macro Photography, Focus Stacking, Extreme Macro
Ground Spider
It's autumn, and time to lay in firewood for the upcoming winter months. I found this spider in my wood pile as I rotated out the remnants of last year's firewood and began stacking a newly delivered load. My best guess on identification is that this is a ground spider, family Gnaphosidae.
![Ground Spider, Gnaphosidae ssp. Ground Spider](https://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/media/blogs/calarti/2015/15-10-05/.evocache/imgp7837-7973_tu2_tm1_zs_ps.jpg/fit-1280x720.jpg?mtime=1444079732)
Since it was nestled on a piece of firewood I positioned in on a wood chip to simulate its natural environment. This portrait was made at approximately 3x lifesized and is 135 stacked images (two separate passes on the subject.)