Friday, January 7, 2011

Big Big Big

I've seen this image a couple of times. It's by an insect macro photographer named Thomas Shahan and is of a male jumping spider.
OBSERVATIONS
-There are reflections of what looks like a camera lens and flash in the spider's eyes.
-The eyes are perfectly round and have an orange rim around them.
-The skin of the spider looks smooth and shiny, yet wrinkly, and has a golden/plum color. Also, individual hairs can be seen.
-The (mouth?) has 2 large (fangs?) sticking out of it
INFERENCES
-The spider looks frightened, but I don't know if that's because its eyes are big and round, which might naturally be that way.
-The two things sticking out of its mouth may be fangs.
-The spider is alone because no other spiders can be seen in the picture
INTERPRETATION
-Since the spider looks bigger than it normally would, maybe the photographer is trying to tell his audience that most things are bigger than they seem, or are more powerful than they seem
-That insects aren't always ugly and dirty, (I got this idea from the article that accompanied this picture, it brought up the point that the photographer made "even the most underestimated arthropods look cute, interesting, and downright gorgeous.")

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