MALE "FENCE-POST JUMPER" (PORTRAIT)

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Comment by Kate MacRae on February 15, 2010 at 16:44: Where are you photographing these and what are you using????... aren't they beautiful!

Comment by The Black Rabbit on February 15, 2010 at 18:50: Thanks for all your kind comments on my spider-photos Kate.
To answer your first question above - the four british species were all photographed around the garden and house in Berkshire. The Marpissa muscosa (fence-post jumping spider) lives mainly in the south and east of the UK, but the others (especially the zebra spider and house-jumping spider) are widespread over the uk - but they are very small (see my photo of a spider next to a match head for scale), so you really have to look hard to find them!
To answer your second question - I took all these shots with a bridge camera (a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 or a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ50 combined with a clip-on (£25) Raynox DCR 150 macro filter - very cheap and very workable!

Thanks again for your kind comments.
TBR (Doug)

Comment by Mark Williams on October 22, 2010 at 14:36: Stunning shot Doug. Goes to show you don't always need expensive equipment.