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Tai Shimizu is owner of Stormy Imaging and author of the iPad/iPhone photo editing App Filterstorm, the drawing app Inkist, and the Mac HDR app Light Compressor

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http:  taishimizu.com pictures the spider and the spreadsheet nikon micro nikkor 105mm f4 ais pn11 spider spreadsheet thumb.jpg

Most people see a spider walking across a piece of paper and they’ll probably put it outside, or squish it. I, however, take a picture of it. After all, how often does one see photos involving both arranged numeric sequences and arachnids? Not often enough.

I feel I should make some overly analytical comment here about the juxtaposition of our base fears of nature and our acquired fears in industrialized life (honestly, who likes spreadsheets?). Or perhaps the image of a spider invokes feelings of being trapped in a web, or by the web. Really, though, it’s just a photo of a spider and a spreadsheet.

[Edit: Upon closer inspection, this does not appear to have 8 legs and therefore isn’t a spider. Oh well, “spider” reads better than “insect”.]
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Blue (anon) | 2009-09-29 13:15:43

Doesn’t it just bug you when your numbers come up short?! Love the photo!
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spider ?

greatpic (anon) | 2009-12-29 21:26:15

This is not a spider but a curculio. Nice macro anyway !
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tai | 2009-12-29 21:43:29

Good to know. It looked like a spider from far away, but I did later realize there weren’t enough legs.
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