Jumping Spider

[Martin Brazil]

Last weekend was a great weekend for spotting wild life, crab-eating foxes, a black tegu lizard, green ibis, white-faced whistling ducks, the list goes on. It was, however, completely overcast with poor light conditions and none of my pictures came out very well.
I did managed to salvage these of a pretty little jumping spider that I wanted to share.

[A.M.D.A.]

Thanks for sharing.

Great crispness/detail in #1. That sure is one colorfully-marked jumping spider – did it get frightened and tried to jump on you? It's happened to me a couple of times...

[Loupey]

That's a beautiful specimen!

They have such wonderful eyesight that it can be difficult to get the desired shooting angle. You did well.

[Dylan8i]

very nice, love the striking colors, esp it being x-mas and all :-D

[Pink Dragonfly]

I'd almost say it was cute Thanks for sharing, Martin! It certainly sounds like a very exciting weekend inspite of the bad light.

Mette

[scott-devon]

Sounds like you had a great day out Martin. That is the most colourful jumping spider I've ever seen, great post.

[paulnj]

I really like that first image!

Are you sure you didn't mean black and white tegu or are you referring to the common tegu that is sometimes called a "black tegu"?

[Pink Dragonfly]

Congratulations on getting Featured Photo Well deserved - keep them coming

Merry Christmas, Martin

Mette

[A.M.D.A.]

Congratulations on Featured Photo, Martin – well deserved! :thumbsup:

Merry Christmas to you and everyone else here at PR.

[Martin Brazil]

Thanks very much everyone, I really appreciate the comments.
I'm uncertain about the lizard Paul, in my book its down as a Black Tegu but it certainly looks similar to the black and white that people keep as pets. Hopefully I can get some better shots of it to post up.
I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for all the help that has been given throughout last year and to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a splendid 2009.

[isnapshots]

Nice shot! thanks

[Pink Dragonfly]

I've just reported the above post, not for the comment but the attached photo!

Mette

[Eric D]

Awesome capture!! What colors that critter has....

[A.M.D.A.]

I've just reported the above post, not for the comment but the attached photo!

Mette

It's not attached – it is in the signature.

Alex

[Pink Dragonfly]

Yes, I discovered that...

I made a note of the report as that is what I thought I was supposed to do in order to save the moderators from getting inundated with reports cf. Frog's thread on spam reporting spam reporting

Sorry if I misunderstood it

Mette

[A.M.D.A.]

That's for spam threads. And was only meant as a "temporary measure" while a post-been-reported system was perhaps in the works. Don't blame you for being confused...

Also, recently Photo-John suggested elsewhere not to post replies to reported posts, as it bumps it up in the "New Posts" page, drawing more attention to the spam.

Sorry if I hijacked your very nice thread, Martin.

Alex

[Pink Dragonfly]

If it's a spam thread, I actually quickly make a post to a different thread to bump it off the main forum menu (LOL I've even posted in the Canon forum ) for that very reason. But in this case I thought it would be a pity for Martin's wonderful spider to be kept off the front page due to one inappropriate photo a long way down in the thread, so I thought I might as well let you all know that it had been reported.

Martin, sorry for this intrusion on your spider - please forgive me :blush2: I hope you are having a great Christmas time in Brazil Presumably as a teacher, you'll get some time off where you can go and explore the jungle with your camera? Wishing you all the best!

Mette

[Knight]

Congrats on the FP Martin , well captured

[paulnj]

I see nothing wrong with that image in the signature....

Well deserved FP!!!

[AgingEyes]

I see nothing wrong with that image in the signature....

Of course there is. Now I can't see what he writes


BTW, congrats Martin for FP !!

[paulnj]

no nudity, not rude... no TOS violation.

[starriderrick]

Congratulations on the featured photo. #1 It's a fantastic catch.Love the colors, angle.

Rick