Loving both Hover flies and Jumping spiders, this makes me feel the conflict I always do with predator and prey. It’s the way things work, but still affects me as it obviously does you. I think it’s worse when a spider has a bee or a spider wasp has a spider. Ugh!
But as far as a dynamic and engaging photo - you struck gold. The repeating horizontal lines and that crisp plane of focus is fabulous. I love the background, too and how well it isolates this tense scene. Bravo!
This one looks good as presented with a very strong composition. Your use of diffused flash provides some ideal, soft highlights in the spider’s eyes and brightens up the hairs. Very sharp and the limited DOF is on the important parts of the image…Jim
Mike, this is a great look at this bit of nature in action. The details, especially the hair, on both critters stand out very well. The eyes are also great. BTW, I can tell this is a big crop, because the laws of optics rule out this much dof at the apparent magnification shown, unless it’s a stack. It’s a great find.
