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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 236826" data-attributes="member: 49228">Forced Perspective Some pictures on the internet are deliberately presented to be misleading. Many of us have seen pictures of people holding up 8 foot corn snakes or nearly foot long Camel Spiders. One way to make a creature look bigger is called forced perspective. Things that are closer, appear larger. The opposite is also true. Things that are further away look smaller. These creatures are presented to look larger than they are by being closer to the camera than the person holding it up. Here we have what appears to be the largest mature male Trinidad Chevron that ever lived. My hand behind it makes it look to be at least nine inches. But, remember, things that are further away look smaller. What you can't tell is that my hand is several inches behind the spider. My hand is further and the spider is closer, so it looks much bigger, relative to my hand. In the second picture, my hand is directly on the other side of the glass from the tarantula and you get a better idea of its true size![ATTACH=full]75412[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]75413[/ATTACH]</blockquote>