Jorge Fardels's photographs may look like puppets or computer-generated imagery, but they are actually images of real, living spiders.

Mr. Fardel uses macro photography to make extreme close-up portraits of spiders indigenous to his hometown of La Coruña, Spain. "As a child I always liked to watch ants," he said. "I spent hours watching insects in my garden, always thinking what it would be like to be that tiny and immerse myself in that macro world." In 2009, when he got his first camera and macro lens,...