Saw this guy up on a wall in my dad's room. I had never seen anything like it, so before I released it I check to see if it were maybe an invasive species. Turns out it's native to Europe and can cause serious crop damage (they feed by sucking juices out of plants). So now I have a dilemma. I despise ending life (unless you're eating it and since this guy produces a somewhat serious odor, hence the name, I wasn't trying to bite into that), but if I let it go, it would damage and perhaps kill more life. I decided to freeze it, and then photograph it obviously. Well, it stank. Like a dried up and windy fart. Here's a view of the underside, legs splayed in their final throes.
Shot at 1.1x, 17-40 f/4 @ 40mm stacked w/ a 35 f/1.4, single 430ex umbrella reflected from the top left.
