Richard Kettlewell

Nice shots -- good depth of field considering the magnification. One slight thing in both shots -- they look underexposed by a stop or two in both cases, probably because the metering in the camera has picked up on the wide expanse of white (from the petals in the first shot and from the background in the second shot) a bit much. I don't know if you 'do' the Zone System, but it looks to me like the spid wants to be about a zone V, but it looks more like a III, so it's lost some detail. Similarly, the petals on the flower look like a VI, but they probably want to be a VIII (lightest zone that still shows some detail). The middle bit of the flower feels like it wants to shine a bit more, so it wants to be a VI or something, but it looks like a IV. So, at a guess, they are probably about 2 stops underexposed. Otherwise, nice framing in both cases, and I like the way you've managed to get sharp focus on the spid's eyes. You could probably fix both in photoshop easily enough -- if you also push the saturation a bit on the flower, not too much though, I think it would be outstanding. Nice work!