Macro Photography Is Easier When The Subject Doesn't Cheat

Dear Spider In My Bedroom,

Thank you for confirming my suspicion than you are a spider-who-hunts-by-leaping, rather than a spider-who-traps-prey-in-webs, but I do have a complaint.

Leaping onto the barrel of my lens while I am trying to take your photograph is cheating. Get your eight hairy legs back out in front of the lens where you belong, you obstinate arachnid!

Hmph!

-- the operator of that big flashy thing

close up of spider,not all of which is in focus

[I put the photo somewhere other than Flickr so as to not poison my Flickr photostream for anyone likely to be uncomfortably startled by an unexpected spider photo.]

No clear photos yet. I'm working on it.