Macro work: garden spider, September 2005
[FZ20: 1/60, f2.8 @ 6mm, ISO 80]

I spotted this guy's web strung out across the garden, so I decided to use him as subject for a little macro practise. I spot metered on the lighter strips of his body because the auto metering was overexposing them a bit. He was in the middle of his lunch when I took it (the black mass at the bottom of the picture). This is straight off the camera - no post-process adjustments. The FZ20's Leica lens does pretty well, but I'm looking forward to trying more of this sort of thing using a close-up diopter attachment.