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Oh go on then, another spider from me,
[i]Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens[/i]
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And I've recently found out he is a she
This photo with a USB Microscope shows the inside of her opisthosoma (bum).
The sort of pyramid shape with a dot is her sex organ Spermathecae.
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shoei - where is that? looks beautiful
ooo spiderporn 😆
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Like Yoshimi's. Summer riding in one photo....
Another lucky capture, from last weekends, err...., weekender (Rowan '8s faster than anyone else on the DH' Sorrell) -
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p.s. anyone know how to link back to Flickr by the photo, now they've changed it around & mozilla script don't appear to work no more..? 🙁
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Nice pics once again everyone. Shoei's is of Heysham church by the way.
I like yoshimi's action shot.
Not got anything very exciting recently.
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Creg - Membershoei - where is that? looks beautiful
As Grum said, it's a Church in Heysham, Lancashire.
Slighty different as i shot with a 720nm IR filter on the camera.
Grum, your pic is brill. It just works. Wouldnt look out of place as an advert.
Teadrinker's shot is now my desktop background. It sums up the perfect end to any ride or walk.
And remember you can't charge me for nicking it cos proper-tea is theft!
Sorry 😳
Grum,
Great pic as usual. Either you know that handsome devil or you waited 3 days for him to pass by? Which is it?
Cheers folks - was just sat on a bench in town playing with my old manual focus Canon 50mm 1.4 and this guy walked past. He's very slightly our of focus as the DOF is really thin at 1.4, but it blurs the background quite nicely.
Great pictures, although the spider one's keep making me want to check under the sofa! Some more pictures from a slightly misty ride yesterday...
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ROPER: let me get this right - in your spare time you stick web cams up spiders bums!!!!!!!!!!! 😯
qwerty, Not strictly up the bum but yes. 😀
Only when they have moulted though and then it's just a hollow skin. most spiders moult their eyes, mouth and sex organs.
I think you realise you are in trouble when you start sharing photos and info with other people about your spiders naughty bits. 😳
And as it's a photo thread, here is a baby M.calpeiana or European Funnel web
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My friend's little kid - they were well chuffed with these pictures 😀
no doubt! ace
Just back from my hols on Tiree:
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ROPER: Are all those spiders your pets or is it part of your job? Or do you just live in some exotic location full of random beasties?
Really like the Tiree pictures, would love to visit there someday
Church at Les Crosets, Swiss Alps with Les Dents du Midi in the background.
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Creg, I have just under 40 spiders. Most are tarantulas but I have a trapdoor and a few funnel webs and other types of spiders. The funnel webs are native to where I live (Southern Spain). I have some pairs for breeding too. I am nerdy enough to keep records on them, and have one or two experiments ongoing as very little is know about certain species and their behaviour. Some of these notes may be published in a paper, if they work out OK.
This is another of mine (though she is bigger now)
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African Horned Baboon, [i]Ceratogyrus darlingi[/i]
(If you fancy keeping one, let me know and I can give you plenty of info and put you in touch with a good dealer).
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Really rather chuffed with this one I took this afternoon with my iPhone. It's a Marsh Hellebore, one of our prettiest orchids, but only grows about three or four inches tall. Hundreds of them grow in one small area of chalk downland near Calne, Wilts.
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(If you fancy keeping one, let me know and I can give you plenty of info and put you in touch with a good dealer).
I'd love to have one but I'd have all hell on trying to keep my 5 cats away from it.
A friend of mine had quite a few Tarantulas and a Huntsman, my favorite was a pink toe tarantula called Elvis (who ended up dying ironically). Really amazing creatures.
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Mission "Get the missus into biking" continues.....
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well she's off the brakes downhill already!
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I'm rather partial to this 'Un..
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DT78, you're a lucky man! Very lucky indeed!
Those dusty trails, I mean, of course... 😉
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Taken by wife again...
Me and my boy...
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didmat - whers that?
Its Snowdon Pyg track, First major climb we did with our kids. 🙂
yoshimi - Member
didmat - whers that?
Android is right, its the Pyg track on Snowdon in Wales.
It that rideable?
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First time out climbing with the kids - my son high on Ilkley Moor by the Cow and Calf. Fortunately mum wasn't there 🙂
Chew - Member
It that rideable?
Would love it to be, but its a footpath. Although the rideable bridelways on the other side looks great too!
We're going to have to go back on a cloudy day, the sign's a bit overexposed and hard to read.
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"Bridleway follows stream bed" if you can't make it out. 😀
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As a casual observer, the reason why many of these snaps fail (from a photographic perspective only you understand) is due to poor cropping. A little post production crop will as oft' as not tighten the image or subject matter and make it a far more successful photograph (flower & damn images above being perfect examples of this).
Adding a border is a sure-fire way of preventing the image from bleeding out into the page - it works especially well in the graphic monochrome barbed wire picture above.