
The Hidden Cost of Wild Caught Invertebrates
It’s often tempting to buy the biggest most impressive specimens, but if those animals have been taken straight from the wild, there are issues you should be aware of.
Here’s a wolf spider we recently found on a trip to Karma Waters Station in far north QLD. I usually photograph animals in either their habitat or on a white background for use on our site or in publications. In this instance though I decided to have a play with some glass to see what reflective details I could capture. It provided an interesting result. The image below took the process a little further with some colour manipulation for a more artistic end product.
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