Billopelma picture thread

B smithi 1.0.0







G. aureostriata 1.0.0









B. bohemei 1.0.0









M. mesomelas 1.0.0











Haplopelma sp. "bach ma" 0.1.0









H. schmidti 0.0.1







C. sanderi 0.0.1





X. immanis 0.1.0









P. nigricolor 0.0.1





A. versicolor 0.0.1













C. elegans 1.0.0







'sold as' Euathlus sp. "gold lowland" 0.1.0, probably Paraphysa sp.







P. murinus RCF 0.1.0











Thrigmopoeus sp. 0.1.0, probably truculentus





Haploclastus "nilgirinus" 0.1.0





B. cyaneifemur 0.0.1





Poecilotheria metallica 0.1.0











H villosella 0.0.1





Avicularia sp. 0.1.0, possibly huriana









Bill

Fantastic pictures!

The B. boehmei and Haplopelma sp. "Bach Ma" are especially stunning!

Wow - excellent pictures.

man amazing photos!that bach ma female is beautiful!also i like that metallica setup.is it plexiglass?

perfect collection;
really nice photos too!
i love ur brachypelmas

Very good pics!! Those are excellent. What camera do you use?

:clap: Excellent!! The colors on those pics came out perfect!! Your P. metallica is breathtakingly gorgeous!:worship: See this is why I'm still working on my pics to start my thread, I'm still not satisfied with the results I know i can do much better before posting them.

Thanks for the compliments, sorry I havn't been around to answer the ?'s.

Camera's used are just $150 to $200 compact digitals. I really want a digital slr, I have a bunch of manual nikkor lenes that would work with one. My financial priorities simply don't justify it, knowing I'll end up using a compact for most things anyway.
The 'older' pic's were taken with either a Fuji 4700 (nice camera but lousy macro) or a Nikon coolpix 4600 (many of these pics have date stamps) and over the last 6-8 months, a Pentax optio wpi. Lighting is mostly flash, sometimes in the dark, sometimes augmented with ambient natural light or full spectrum fluorescent. Most have been cropped/reduced/compressed for photobucketing, many are exposure compensated, very few have any color balance alterations beyond the camera settings. I'm way to lazy to make nice borders, integrated titles and such. Most were shot in the actual enclosure they're residing in, a few obvious ones are on houseplants, hands, or outside.

Just for the record I rarely handle or bring T's outside except in the course of rehousing, and couldn't care less if anyone else does or doesn't. I do however, experience an inexplicable perverse pleasure at seeing a particularly large, toxic critter on someone's face.

The encolsures are indeed plexi, I make 'em in a couple dozen different sizes.
At one point in size the cost of acrylic and hassle of fixturing exceeds the price of an equivalent pre made glass tank, so most of them are under a foot in the longest dimension.

Bill

What the hell, did you handpaint your spiders? Amazing shots!

Amazing pics Billopelma can you post some pics of your enclosures they look amazing also

C. cyaneopubescens 1.0.0













This was one of the more vibrant colored ones I've seen until he recently hooked out, much more subdued looking now...







E. cyanognathus 0.0.1











E. cyanognathus 1.0.0









Avicularia sp. purchased as bicegoi 0.1.0





H. schmidti exuvium, why I still can't sex it...





C. schioedtei 0.0.1







A. brocklehursti 0.1.0









N. chromatus 0.1.0









S. calceatum 1.0.0







M. robustum 1.0.0







Curlytoe morph (actually, got caught molting in mid shipment)





C. darlingi 0.0.1







Lampropelma sp. "borneo" (niggerimum?) 0.0.1







A. seemani 0.1.0









P. regalis 0.1.0

















G. pulchra 1.0.0







G. pulchra 0.1.0









P. pulcher 1.0.0









P. pulcher 0.1.0









H. vonwirthi 0.0.1 (sp. "vietnam")





H. incei 0.0.1







C. fimbriatus 0.1.0





P. formosa 0.0.2





L. parahybana 0.1.0

a month ago...


after molt...







P. fortis 1.0.0









B. ruhnaui 0.1.0









B. ruhnaui 0.0.1





B. jacksoni 0.0.1









Hottentotta sp. 0.0.2











C. vittatus 0.0.1







Bill

gorgeous b.smithi and b.bohemi

they are so bright red!

Wow, total tarantula eye candy! :clap:

Awesome collection, wow :worship:

You have amazingly beautiful tarantulas! A very impressive collection, and your photos are wonderful. Thanks for sharing those!

Gorgeous collection and very nice pics. I haven't mastered the art of photographing T's. I have to work on it.

wow

what a nice collection you got there man!
Amazing really, when I grow up I wana be like you.

I guess your A. huriana may be an Avicularia jurensis. :?

I guess your A. huriana may be an Avicularia jurensis.

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I don't believe so, but I called it that for a month just so I felt like I had owned one. I also called it a biceuriasistiaca... It's most likely huriana or 'hobby' bicegoi, though without at least locality info the closest anyone can get for sure is urticans complex something or other.


Bill

P. rufilata 1.0.0















H. minax 0.0.1





T. gigas 0.0.1







B. emilia 0.1.0







B. auratum 1.0.0















G. actaeon 0.1.0









T. apophysis 0.0.1






Avicularia sp. 1.0.0 bought as bicegoi







Avicularia sp. 0.1.0 bought as bicegoi










P. striata 0.1.0








Bill

Very nice collection and pix as well