JBM's Photo Thread

[freedumbdclxvi]

Plus I want all the girls I recently sold back lol

I asked them if they wanted to go back, and they said they couldn't remember you.
Good looking minax slings! I was considering getting a few.

 

[jbm150]

Those B's! Haha well I appreciate you asking 'em Dustin, hope they're all doing well

Thanks guys, for whatever reason, once they get their tarsal claws in you, you just can't get away!

 

[papilio]

Hey Jeff, I'm glad that your intentions didn't 'stick'! lol Good to see you posting again.

Afraid I'm not big enough a man to send your beauties back to you. But if it helps, Tanook is the Jewel of my collection, truly the only one of my spiders about whom I'd feel genuinely upset to lose should anything happen to her.

btw Yes that's her molt (already!), she's enormous and dizzyingly beautiful!! :biggrin: I'm very grateful to you for being willing to pass her on to me.

I've become rather reluctant to photograph her, I do try my very best to not make the photoshoot a stressful event but she clearly became far more shy after my having taken her out the few times I did earlier on. In contrast to her initial behavior of being on show most of the time, for many months (far longer than I'd attribute to any possible pre-molt behavior) she would refuse to leave the depths of her hide, now at last she's beginning to spend much of her time sitting at its entrance so that I can at least see her, and she will occasionally come out do drink the rain off the walls after I mist rather heavily ... I can't seem to get her to stop ignoring her water dish. A sensitive constitution she appears to have, the only spider of mine who seems to have been somewhat traumatized by the occasional excursion to the studio set.

I recently finished re-processsing this older portrait of her for a new photo book which I'm putting together, thought you might like to spend a little time together.





Poecilotheria subfusca by _papilio, on Flickr

 

[jbm150]

Thanks Michael, I was only kidding about wanting them back (but not really). That picture of Tanooki is just astounding and I appreciate it! I'm glad you enjoy her as I did and wish you luck on your photo book. While I had her, she was not shy in the least. It's interesting that she has become so as she's grown and possibly as a response to being taken out for photographing. Hopefully she still has her ravenous appetite

 

[Shell]

Good to see you back, and posting, Jeff....downsize...ha I hope you're well

 

[Shrike]

Welcome back. Glad to see you've abandoned the "downsizing" foolishness

 

[Storm76]

So much for "downsizing" Jeff - wasn't it you that told me "You won't be able to keep it down to x Ts"?

 

[jbm150]

Good to see you back, and posting, Jeff....downsize...ha I hope you're well

Thanks Shell, doing well! Love the Bruce av, looks like a happy pup

Welcome back. Glad to see you've abandoned the "downsizing" foolishness

I need to stick to it but it's so damn hard. I keep coming back, seeing pictures, and thinking "I want that species!"

So much for "downsizing" Jeff - wasn't it you that told me "You won't be able to keep it down to x Ts"?

Hehe that sounds like something I'd say

 

[mcluskyisms]

Nice new additions Jeff, we've all been there with "downsizing" (never works) haha!

 

[jbm150]

Thanks mc, ain't it the truth?


Some pics of a frustrated baboon and a tricky worm (unfortunately through unclean plexi)







Are you kidding me with this species? Ridiculous :drool:

 

[papilio]

Beautiful Jeff!!
I have four slings, so one day ...

 

[Storm76]

Still on my wishlist...sadly don't have the money currently to spend on T's..

 

[jbm150]

Beautiful Jeff!!
I have four slings, so one day ...

Sooner than you think, balfouri grow like weeds

Still on my wishlist...sadly don't have the money currently to spend on T's..

Definitely one to save up for. Though, to be honest, mine is probably one of the shyest Ts I've ever owned.

 

[jbm150]

Somebody being overly dramatic on having to move

 

[LV-426]

^Sumatran tiger?

 

[jbm150]

Nigerrimum

 

[Shrike]

Nigerrimum

And a feisty one at that. Nice looking spider!

 

[jbm150]

My biggest girl, out in the light for more than a few seconds. She's so burly!

 

[freedumbdclxvi]

Look at that beautiful behemoth!

 

[papilio]

Just magnificent Jeff!!! :biggrin:

Sorry to be such a noob, but what is she?