This photograph looks nothing like night scene in which it was captured.
During the third night of my 2010 Big Bend visit I was transferring a few things to my tent when, at the edge of my campsite, my flashlight flickered over a spec of tiny glittering green. After several instances of this I investigated.
I didn’t see anything upon first searching and wrote it off as a stray piece of green foil, glitter or some such a thing. But shortly thereafter—when I happened to see the green “glitter” move into the wind, instead of with the wind—I searched again.
What I found was a spider about the size of a soft drink can top (legs and all). The green spot was one of its eyes. My flash overpowered the reflective nature of that green eye and so the second of the two images I’ve uploaded here was extensively edited in order to closely approximate the conditions at the time.
Above is the first of two images. My research suggests that this is a Wolf Spider.
The original image is a Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) with a file data size of 35.1 megabytes (MB).
For display on this web site the TIFF was duplicated and the duplicate re-formatted as a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG/JPEG) image with a file data size of 3.79 MB. To approximate detail visible at the time of capture the image was sharpened as necessary and resampled via the Photoshop Bicubic Sharpen algorithm. The re-sampling increases the image resolution from 300 Dots Per Square Inch (DPI) to 360 DPI.
Unless otherwise noted the image was corrected to offset color shift and balance. This restores black (shadows), white (highlights) and neutral gray (neutral mid-tones).
• An unnumbered image is the only one of the subject matter.
• A number corresponds to the sequential order in a subject-matter-related sequence.
• The letter “B” indicates color correction to approximate what was visible when the image was captured.
• The letter “C” indicates enhancement beyond an approximation of what was visible at the time of capture.