Photo by Mike Firesmith

eeek!!
You, sir, are a brave, brave man!

I don't do spiders! *shudder*
Nope, not even LITTLE ones and I don't care HOW good your camera lens is that does NOT look like a little one to me! %^p

They are mostly harmless so no bravery is needed.

It doesn't matter if they're harmless because they're (shuddering again!) "crawly", with all those legs! And a lot of them will jump at you if you even look at them!
Hey, it's my phobia and it doesn't have to make any sense to be real to me. *lol*

You should get over it. Spiders are good people

I get along fine with all spiders that are at least 10 ft. away from me. %^p
I'm even nice to them, as long as they're Outside:
I turn on the back porch light so that they can catch lots of gnats and mosquitoes in their webs out there.
If they're inside they're fair game for squishing.

I know, I should gently remove them to the outdoors...
I tried that once and the hairy little bugger scampered off the sheet of paper I was carrying it on and and ran right up my arm!

It almost made it into my hair (which is way too long to search through for a spider, lemme tell you!) before I swatted it to the floor and smashed it underneath the aforementioned sheet of paper.

I do really like Garden Spiders (Orb Spiders?), though...they never "run" anywhere. They just sit there serenely in their web, like a beautiful jewel beside their zigzag handiwork. :o)