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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:11 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:11 am
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Yesterday night, I heard my wife screaming in the bathroom. I came and there was this big spider on the mirror:

(with my son's face reflection in the mirror, this one was taken with the Pentax 40/2.8 pancake):



I scrambled downstairs and took my faithful APO Lanthar 125/2.5 to do a few close-up shots:







100% crop:


Apologies for the dirty mirror Embarassed.

Cheers!

Abbazz


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:31 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:31 am
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That poor spider looks like your wife's screaming gave it a scare.


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:01 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:01 am
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wow! big spider, exceptional quality of the Lanthar Shocked


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:20 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:20 am
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How many eyes has this thing?Shocked
You really have scary spiders there.
Great photos. And ApoLanthar is a winner.


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:03 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:03 am
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Fantastic shots Sebastien and again the Lanthar excels!


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:06 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:06 am
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it is like the Australian huntsman.....big and "ugly" Great close up...do these jump?


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:16 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:16 pm
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Thanks guys for the kind words.

Orio wrote:
How many eyes has this thing?Shocked

It is fashionable for spiders to have four pairs of eyes.Very Happy

Cheers!

Abbazz


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:20 pm
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these have usually 8 eyes --

same as legs - 8

wow ! what a monster!!!! ..

My wife would have died by seeing this..

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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:43 pm
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Beautiful. Don't know why the girls can't appreciate them. A lot of them have their eyes encircling their head - useful for seeing threats I suppose. This one must have the most fantastic octonocular vision. I wonder what the advantage of that is.


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:53 pm
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Crop is amazing !
as good as a Canon EF 100macro !


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:06 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:06 pm
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Super shots Abbazz Scary thing


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:08 pm
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awesome!! my girlfriend nearly produced kittens ha! Very Happy


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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:11 pm
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There are some gorgeous macros of amazingly cute spiders here http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/01/jumping-spider-eyes.html
well worth a look


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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:40 am
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Mo-Fo wrote:
it is like the Australian huntsman.....big and "ugly" Great close up...do these jump?

It looks like the hunstsman indeed. It's the third time I see one inside the house, but I have never seen them jump.

PaulC wrote:
There are some gorgeous macros of amazingly cute spiders here http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/01/jumping-spider-eyes.html
well worth a look

These are borrowed from Thomas Shalan Flickr page. The most amazing part is that he uses an old Takumar 28mm lens mounted reversed on a no-name 2x teleconverter to shoot these gorgeous pictures. Who needs an APO-Lanthar?

Cheers!

Abbazz


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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:29 am
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I did not know huntsman jumped until I tried to move one,it scrunches sideways then springs out....damn spider missile!!


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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:37 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:37 pm
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PaulC wrote:
Beautiful. Don't know why the girls can't appreciate them.


Hey, now. Happiness is a macro lens and a jumping spider.


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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:18 am
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Oh man - your wife's scream would have nothing on mine if I had found that behemoth in my bathroom Embarassed

Incredible photos though!
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