Arachnids
Featured Work
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Last Stand by Dennis Gay
THE SUBJECT: / A tiny Diaea evanida (Flower Spider) sitting at the end of an Actinotus helianthus (Flannel Flower) petal in a last stand against a pesky photographer. THE LOCATION: / Photographed in the Grant’s Head Nature Reserve, Bonny Hills, NSW, Australia.. THE MAKING OF ‘Last Stand’: / With my beloved Milady Fuji, (the S9600), at the doctors I set out on a Nature safari with my old workhorse Mr Fuji, (S5500) on a glorious spring day. / I went straight to Grant’s Head, loaded myself up with tripods and headed down the rough gravel gully that acts as a track to where the Flannel Flowers grow. / They were in abundance again this year and so I went slowly from plant to plant on the hunt for spiders, bees, beetles etc until I found this li’l fella. / It was originally sitting more towards the centre of the flower but by the time I set everything up I was well and truly sprung and when I went to make the shot it walked to the end of the petal. / I thought it would disappear over the edge as they are want to do but my gutsy subject turned to face me – a last stand. / What I pleasantly discovered was that by applying the knowledge and experience I have gleaned in using the 9Mp S9600 to the 4Mp S5500 that has less bells and whistles was I could successfully squeeze images of even more quality from it than I had before. / Fuji S5500: RAW, f/3 @ 1/1000sec, ISO64, Auto focus, Tripod, Timer. / Lightroom 2.2 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Insects & Spiders collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more arachnidian delights. UPDATE: 9-11-09 / My defiant spider has been FEATURED in the Colour and Light Group. Enjoy! SPIDERS / (Click the links!) Diaea evanida – Last Stand / Diaea evanida – Flannel Flower Defender / Diaea evanida – Dinner at Five #1 / Diaea evanida – Dinner at Five #2 / Diaea evanida – Fresh Meat / Diaea sp – Striped Pyjamas / Nephila plumipes – Suspended Animation / Nephila plumipes – Time Tunnel / Nephila plumipes – Lunch is Served / Nephila plumipes – No-one Home / Argiope Kaiserling – Dragon Slayer / Deinopis subrufa – Net Casting Spider / Araneus bradleyi – Enamelled Spider / Tetragnatha sp /
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"here Spike!" by Peter Martin
My favorite little furry friend at Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium (Up Delhi Rd from Chatswood, NSW). He even let me stroke his cute little head after the session. A very personable little spider indeed. Canon 5D2 + MPE 65mm @ 3.5x / F/13, ISO-800, 1/200sec + ringflash. Auto-tone and Camera Faithful preset in Lightroom. Sharpening in Photoshop using the High-Pass sharpen (USM) and Linear Light blend method. Tweaked Shadows / Highlights to bring out its blues and bright orange. It was sitting on a small leaf towards the centre of a rose bush, as I pushed the front of the lens and ringflash mount through the foliage to snap him, I have some how lost the light from the bottom half of the ring flash. If you look at the reflection in its eyes, you can see the ringflash pushed hard up against the leaf it is sitting on producing an erie, almost lunar landscape look in its eyes. The blue flecks were present in the raw image, though not very pronounced. Usually I use the Lightroom Tone Curve control, however this time, since I was already in Photoshop, I used the Shadows/Highlights adjustment panel to good effect. I must say that this spider was either ultra confident at an escape route if need be, or it was just too damned hot to bother, as there were many times that the ringflash came to grief on thorns and the whole plant shook but this little guy just waited patiently for the next shot. Maybe he remembered me from yesterday when I hounded him up the side of a tree trying to get a shot and surmised that he’d better just let me have my fun then maybe I’d leave him alone – which I did!
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heydontlookatme Ididntdoit by Peter Martin
Hey, don’t look at me[?] I didn’t do it! / It was missing a leg way before I hooked up with it. No wonder this little dude was so uncooperative / ...once bitten twice shy. Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, NSW. / (near the bench, just below the Herb Garden) Canon 5D2 + MPE @ 3x magnification. / F/9, ISO 1600, 1/200 sec, ringflash(4:1 split). 2 x raw images processed in Lightroom; / focus merge and high-pass sharpen in Photoshop.
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Mother & Child by Jason Asher
Featured in Arachnids – November 2009 / Featured in Dimensions – November 2009 / Featured in Playful Photogenic Animals – November 2009 / Featured in Backyard Macro and Closeups – November 2009 / Featured in Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art – November 2009 / Featured in Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies – November 2009 Here’s another shot of a Northern Green Jumping Spider – the largest jumpers in Australia. This time a female, with her precious young cradled beneath. Shot on the 27th of October 2009 in Brisbane, Australia, with a Canon 450d and a 70-300 is usm telephoto with 68mm of stacked extension tubes. Shutter: 1/60th (fired built-in flash +2) / Aperture: f/20 / ISO: 200 My Images Do NOT Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © Jason Asher. All Rights Reserved. Copying, saving, downloading, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Non-compliance with these term(s) WILL result in legal action.
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Home Sweet Home by Teresa Burnett
This guy was just lounging around his front room enjoying the autumn color in the Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon. Canon Rebel XTi Canon 70-300mm lens FEATURED:ARACHNIDS 11-13-09 /
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the bribe by Peter Martin
My usual place, probably the same leaf, but a different spider. Northern Suburbs Crematorium and Memorial Gardens. (on the cusp of Chatswood/Ryde) NSW. Usually my subjects are all fidgety and looking for food, but this little spider was quite relaxed, and a little preoccupied with a chrysalis lollipop that looked like it had well and truly been sucked at both ends.
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Little Spider - Big Meal by Aaron Murgatroyd
This spider was eating a meal its same size!
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A bite to eat by Shelley Warbrooke
My spider friend! Taken in my backyard on the 17th of October, 2009. This is a black and white jumping spider (not sure what species etc.). You have to be very wary of these little guys that they don’t jump on your lens! I caught this guy having a snack while observing me curiously. Canon 400D and 100mm macro lens. ISO: 100 / Aperture: f/8 / Shutter speed: 1/80 Copyright © Shelley Warbrooke. All rights reserved. My images are not public property and are not to be copied, distributed, altered or displayed without strict written permission from the artist.
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Trapdoor Spider by Adam Maund
An extreme close-up of this primitive arachnid sitting at her burrow entrance – Springbrook, Qld 2009
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Weaving a home by Paulo van Breugel
A strangely shaped spider weaving a spider web – taken in Diani, Kenya. Nikon D300, AF-S Nikkor 300 mm with 1.4 converter.
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Harvestman by Kane Slater
West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 8/10/09
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Northern Mouse Spider by Christopher Houghton
(Missulena pruinosa), family Actinopodidae. (Male) Mouse spiders should be considered dangerous and treated with caution as they can be aggressive and will bite if provoked.
Recent Work
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Lynx spider revisited by Edge-of-dreams
This is my favourite spider pic. It’s similar to one of the others I’ve posted, just cropped a little closer so you can see all the detail. He’s such a cutie !! Taken with a Nikon D90, 105mm lens and loads of Australian sunshine! Cropped, otherwise straight out of the camera, as is. Melbourne, Australia.
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Untitled by Edge-of-dreams
I can’t help but smile when I see this pic. Looks like he’s got a beard and a moustache.. / Taken with a D90, 105mm lens. / Melbourne, Australia
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Another walk on droplets by Martin Beerens
BEST VIEWED LARGER / Morning dew in a web / Nete Herentals, Belgium Canon 40D – Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM / ISO 800 – f/5.6 – 1/80s Have a look at my other photos. For example
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On the look out by Patrick Monnier
This lovely bug is obviously waiting for something. Magnification ratio 1,3 Canon 40D Lens Canon MP-E 65mm
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St. Andrews spider-The female. by andrachne
THE BODY.Two longitudinal yellow stripes below. Silver, yellow, red and black banded above..
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Spiders from Mars by inkedsandra
Inspired by David Bowie’s song. I found this huge house spider in my kitchen sink! /
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At Home by missmoneypenny
This tiny spider has been hanging on to his web for dear life this week as it gets battered about by gale force winds. Shot taken November 2009 using a Canon EOS D30 with 38-76mm Canon lens and a 12x universal macro lens bubble, canvas, card, spider, arachnid, framed, laminated, matted, moneypenny, mounted, creepy, poster, print, rb, red, redbubble
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Droplets universe by Martin Beerens
BEST VIEWED LARGER / A web with drops. / Nete Herentals, Belgium Canon 40D – Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Have a look at my other photos. For example:
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Opisthoncus by Jason Asher
A typical Garden Jumping Spider found in the backyard. This guy was probably about 1cm or so long. Shot on the 14th of November 2009 in Brisbane, Australia, with a Canon 450d and a 70-300 is usm telephoto with 68mm of stacked extension tubes. Shutter: 1/80th / Aperture: f/20 / ISO: 400 My Images Do NOT Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © Jason Asher. All Rights Reserved. Copying, saving, downloading, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Non-compliance with these term(s) WILL result in legal action.
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St Andrew's Cross Spider-The female. by andrachne
Named for their web decorations – zig-zag ribbons through the centre of the web. Females have a silvery carapace and a silver, yellow, red and black banded upper abdomen . Males 3 mm – 4 mm; females 10 mm – 16 mm
About This Group
ARACHNID- definition: Any of a class (Arachnida) of arthropods comprising chiefly terrestrial invertebrates, including the spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks, and having a segmented body divided into two regions of which the anterior bears four pairs of legs but no antennae
In short, our eight-legged friends. This group is dedicated to showing the artistic, beautiful side of these amazing creatures so many people fear.
All art related to Arachnids is welcome. That includes Manipulations, Paintings, Drawings, Photography, T-shirts, Cartoons, anything with an Arachnid visibly present!
Group Icon: 16 Legs by clmustin
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