Facing

Heteropoda venatoria
Brown Huntsman Spider
脚高蜘蛛(アシダカグモ)

Photograph by Baikada (ばいかだ)
*CANON EOS KISS DX*

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苦手克服シリーズのひとつです。以前紹介したトビズムカデ以来ですね。
It is one of the weak point conquest series. Since “Like Black_Kite’s head centipede” which I introduced before.

私は基本的に脚が6本以上ある生き物は得手ではありません。クモもまた然り。しかし、最近ハエトリグモを身近で観察するようになって、「クモ全般が苦手なんだ」という認識が間違っていることに気がついた。しかし、アシダカグモはとても大きい。手のひらくらいの大きさがある。そしてものすごく素早い。一時、弱毒を持つという話を聞いていたが改めてインターネットで調べると、人間に対する毒性については否定されつつある流れのようだ。
I am weak in the creature having a leg more than six of them basically. I am weak in the spider, too. However, I came to observe “Jumping spider” recently and noticed that recognition that “I was weak in the spider whole” was wrong. However, Brown Huntsman Spider is very big. There is size of a palm. And he is very quick. I heard “He has weakened poison”, but it seems to be denied about the toxicity for the human being when I examine it on the Internet some other time.

脚が多くて、素早いものは苦手です。しかし、それでは被写体としての意外な魅力に気がつかないで終わってしまう。
I am weak with many legs and the quick creature. However, then I never notice unexpected charm as the subject.

ある夜、路地裏でアシダカグモと出会った。活動的ではなかった様子なので、思い切って、腰をすえて、マクロで勝負した。正面からフラッシュを焚くと、アシダカグモが驚いて狂奔するかもしれない…。と思ったのもあるけど、アシダカグモの脚の長さがわかるような写真を撮ってみたいと思っていたので、三脚にカメラを据え、LED懐中電灯で斜め後ろからライティングしてみた。
そこそこ、面白い写真となった。克服は出来ていないけれど、私がアシダカグモと闘った記録は残す事ができた。
I met Brown Huntsman Spider in the alley on a certain night. Because he was not active, I challenged taking a picture by the macro boldly sitting down. I set up the camera in tripod, and after the diagonal, did lighting from the furnace with the LED flashlight because I wanted to take the photograph where the length of his leg was understood though was the desire, “It was likely to make desperate efforts his being surprised when the flash was burnt from the front”. This became a little interesting photograph. As for me, overcoming cannot have done him. However, I was able to leave the record fought against him.

残す苦手は、 ゴキブリとフナムシです。今年は勝負できるでしょうか…。
My weak point to leave is a cockroach and a sea louse. Can I fight this year…?

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