This may come as a surprise, but I'm mildly-to-moderately arachnophobic. Just looking at this picture of a toy spider makes my skin crawl all over. Awful. Really, my scalp is even prickling. I still pursue them, photograph them, catch them, and study them. Every second of it freaks me out, though.
Apparently some hairs on the abdomen of tarantulas can cause severe irritation. These hairs are supposedly the main ingredient in authentic itching powder. *shudder*
Griff went full-on literal for this word and asked me to take a picture of him scratching an itch. I asked him to give the composition some thought while I went to get my camera. Ok, I didn't say "composition", or at least not just that word - I asked him to think about the background, how much of his body he wanted in the frame, where he wanted me to stand, how much space he wanted around his body. So while I snapped the shutter, it's his work.
