Having a spider around had always given me the creeps. I don't know if it was a true arachnophobia,
but seeing a spider on the wall or running across the floor was especially uncomfortable for me. But for the last year I've been taking macro photos with my smartphone and I've been getting closer and closer to them, even just a few centimeters away. They still command a certain respect in me, but it's no longer an uncontrollable disgust. Not only that: I have surprised myself with the impulse to pick up an Araneus angulatus with my fingers to put it in a position where the light would hit it better. I didn't get to do it, but that unconscious impulse I wouldn't have had years ago for sure.
Here are some of my spider photos taken with my iPhone 13 mini. In some cases I used a homemade macro lens and in others an Apexel 100mm.
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