Male Habronattus virgulatus Jumping Spider - Arizona

Click here for a larger view!

A somewhat more tastefully processed version of a small stack taken at the same time as the last H. virgulatus shot - here's my description from the original post for this species:

"I’m back! Just returned from a week with the Elias Lab out south of Tucson, AZ while they carried out their field research involving Habronattus jumping spiders. It was great to spend some time in such beautiful country with the company of fellow spider-fans that never seemed to tire of my endless questions and ramblings about salticids. The amount of beautiful and varied species we found was just overwhelming too – and I ended up taking quite a lot of shots – so expect to see more wild Arizona salticids around here soon!

This little Habronattus virgulatus male, after much coaxing, eventually allowed a few portraits to be taken of his beautifully colored face - despite his odd behavior of turning about 45 degrees every time I pointed the camera in his face. I suspect he was threatened a bit by my massive new 8x10” flash diffuser I’ve started using lately. The image is a pretty significant crop from a focus stack of 2 images (would have loved to have gotten a 3rd for the foremost legs – but he began to groom himself shortly after the above images) taken with an old SMC Pentax 50mm reversed on two sets of extension tubes."

Some rights reserved

Taken on: April 27, 2013

Tags:

jumping

spider

salticidae

habronattus

arthropod

arachnid

arachnology

entomology

elias lab

UC berkley

macro

portrait

head

face

arms

palps

pedipalps

chelicerae

fangs

eyes

hair

close-up

macrophotography

pentax

SMC

50mm

f/1.7

reversed

prime

lens

extension

tubes

diy

homemade

flash

diffuser

softbox

vintage

vivitar

thyristor

DSLR

SLR

thomas

shahan

arizona

taxonomy:binomial=Habronattus virgulatus « less

Groups appears in: • All Animals • Macro more » • Closer and Closer Macro Photography - • Super Macro • SPIDERS • Natural Macros • bugs and spiders • Macro Viewers • Macro Photography • Animal Eyes • The Spider Web • Nature Photography • prime lenses (fixed focal length) • Animal Closeups • Poor-Man's Macro (PLEASE, read the description carefully!) • PENTAX RICOH K-MOUNT DIGITAL CAMERA USERS (3p.Day) • Eyes! • Macro Bugs • The World Up-Close (Nature Macro) • Darwinism • Pentax K Mount • Animal Taxonomy - Araneae • Arthropods - Esthetics • Pentax SMC - Official Tag Required • ►Jumping Spider • Macro! Macro!! Macro!!! • Macrofoted ( Post 1 / Comment 2) • Focus stacks • Spider-ville • Macro! Closeup Shots! • Arachnids • Art of Nature • Stuff With Eight Legs • SPIDERS ARE BEAUTIFUL. • Beautiful Bugs • SLR Macro Photography • ALL ABOUT INSECTS & SPIDERS • Spider World: (We still need your VOTES) • MANUAL FOCUS LENS ON A PENTAX DIGITAL SLR (+ Samsung) 4 per day • Salticidae • Encyclopedia of Life Images • Jumping Spider (Salticidae) Commons • Magnificent Macros Post 1-Award 2 - Max 24 mm ~ • Aracné • Pentaxians • Pentax KX users • Habronattus jumping spiders • Pentax K-x • Amazing Arthropods • Spider Photos • Entomology, Arachnology and Environment • Jumping Spiders « less

Stats: 189,697 views / 151 comments

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder