What the Spiders Taught Me

Exploring the world of arachnids and nature through the photography and art of Shannon Bowley

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In The Eyes of a Huntress

February 24, 2014by bowleyshannon Leave a comment

I revisited an older photo of an adult female Misumena vatia, shot with my old 28mm lens reversed on my set of Kenko extension tubes. The image is soft and […]

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experimenting, photography, Reversed Lens

Arachnology Adventures with Rod Crawford – August 6th, 2010

February 1, 2014by bowleyshannon 1 Comment

In Arachnologist Rod Crawford’s lab, there is a big black and white map of Washington State. It’s been diced up in a grid of latitudes and longitudes, and red dots […]

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Arachnology, Collecting, Field Trip Report, Field work

Beyond fears, new beginnings

January 22, 2014by bowleyshannon 1 Comment

There was no way I could have ever guessed that an encounter with a small spider  six years ago would have changed my life as much as it has.  Like […]

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Conservation, Dreams, Eco-Tourism, Exploring, Human Nature, Thoughts

The Wilderness of Intuition – My First Day in Ecuador

January 19, 2012by bowleyshannon 1 Comment

  15th of February, 2011 It was through the wooden boards of the ceiling above that James’s music, albeit a bit muffled, reached my ears. It succeeded in rousing me […]

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cloud forest, Ecuador, Mindo, photography, snakes, Spiders, travel, Yellow House

The Logistics – Getting to Ecuador!

January 15, 2012by bowleyshannon Leave a comment

14th of February, 2011 In the quiet and cool dark of morning, I woke to an alarm that was set for about 4:00am. I hadn’t slept much that night, honestly…the […]

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adventure, cloud forest, Ecuador, flying, Mindo, travel, Yellow House

Beyond the Impossible!

December 30, 2011by bowleyshannon Leave a comment

As a consequence of the Seattle Times spider article and the mere click of a button on Facebook, James became a most unusual and fascinating part of my life on […]

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adventure, people, photography, trip

What The Spiders Taught Me

December 17, 2011by bowleyshannon 2 Comments

On the 13th of January, 2011, a friend I’d made over Facebook sent me a rather lengthy private message.  It was no ordinary message, but neither was the man who’d […]

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fears, perspective, phidippus, phobia, Spiders

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