[EdgarOrtega]

The Contest Thread is now open!

This is the place to post your March entries. Please, post only photos here.
Commentary may be posted in the 'Commentary Thread'.

Be sure to read the rules, below, and HAVE FUN!
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SFBATS Photo Contest Rules



CONTEST

o Photo contest is open to all SFBATS members. All SFBATS members who submit entries are eligible to win. There will be a separate prize available to officers who enter. Details will be posted at a later date, but soon!

o Each forum member may enter as many photos as he/she wishes, as long as the entries conform to the rules of eligible entries described below.

o Photos must include a living invert/bug (e.g. arachnid, insect, millipede, centipede, etc.) as the main subject.

o Photo subjects must be animals which you yourself own/keep or, if the subject is a wild native specimen, an animal which you, yourself, have photographed.

o Entries must be photos, which you, yourself ,have taken

o Entries must be appropriate for our family friendly forum

o Please keep photos below 900 pixels in either dimension

o Participants may use Photoshop or any other photo editing software, if they wish.

o Contest will be opened at midnight March 4, and will run through April 3.



PRIZE
o Photos will be judged by your SFBATS officers!
o Winner will be announced on Sunday night April 5th at 9:00pm
o Winner will get to choose a sling from the following list of species.

Acanthoscurria chacoana- 1.25 inch
Aphonopelma chalcodes - Arizona Blonde - 1/4 inch
Aphonopelma seemanni - Costa Rican Zebra - .75 inch
Brachypelma albopilosum - Curlyhair - 3 inch
Brachypelma angustum - Redrump 1.25 inch
Brachypelma smithi - Mexican Red Knee - .75 inch  
Chilobrachys fimbratus - Indian Violet - .75 inch
Citharischius crawshayi - King Baboon - .75 inch
Cyriocosmus elegans - Trinidad Dwarf .75 inch
Cyriopagopus sp - Singapore Blue - 1 inch
Holothele Tachira .5 inch
Nhandu chromatus - White Striped Birdeater - .25 inch
Orphnaecus sp. .25 inch
Poecilotheria pederseni - Ghost Ornamental - 1 inch

Thank you to Ken The Bug Guy for donating this month’s prize and sponsoring our first official photo contest!

www.kenthebugguy.com




Let's see those great shots.
GOOD LUCK, AND  HAVE FUN!

[grumbledog]

Horrible Spider has asked me to submit the following pictures of her. She's very photogenic, and is particularly proud of her little pink ballet slippers.

My photography tends to (usually) be a bit on the peculiar side. I play a lot with TTV (Through the Viewfinder) layers to create shots that are moody and evoke a feeling rather than simply show the subject as it is. Horrible Spider was particularly interested in showing her darker side in these shots.



Okay, so this one is pretty normal. This is her baby picture, taken on one of her rare outings.



Horrible Spider welcomes you to her home. Come in!



Give us a kiss!



Horrible Spider tries to capture the sun. Oddly enough, I didn't do anything to this pic. It was taken at night, and the light is from her heat lamp.



Horrible Spider dreams. This was taken through her web.

[Joeseph]

[wburke17]

Hungry for a Kiss

[darth skippy]

some of mine :wink:

A geniculata
 

L difficilis (with slight color tweeking )

[jwwjr]

KFC dinner

my "unique", trapdoor L. malayanus. it actually does come out once in a great while. it was like this for a day or 2 then created a new hole and has recently dug to the bottom of the KK

[Bonedog]

Here's the first!

It's a blue day.

[Bonedog]

Number 2!

John's Girl.

[sntcruzan]

catching tarantulas in Tijuana for the orphans #1

[sntcruzan]

[sntcruzan]

Showing the orphan kids the tarantula that we just caught in TJ,Mexico

[UglyKid2]

Tailless whip scorpion molting


Mama with babies


Two weeks old

[mitchrobot4]

brachy eating


gbb also eating


nasty thing

[Jetta]

Here are a couple of my favorties, enjoy.

P. regalis







H. Gigas





B. boehmei



P. cancerides breeding




Enjoy!!!

[BayLee]

A. versicolor
"Elton"

[llamamama]

Flame Skimmer - Libellula saturata



Western Tiger Swallowtail -- Papilio rutulus



Emperor scorpion -- Pandinus imperators -- eating a cricket


California Mantid -- Stagmomantis californica -- having dinner

[BayLee]

G. purlchra





N. chromatus sling

[darth skippy]

i like this one too :wink:

[Heliamphora]

B. emilia sling in her lickle wickle lair

[northswan04]

Two of the photogenic species in a more subtle form:

Grammostola aureostriata






Brachypelma vagans

[llamamama]

Orange Bitey Thing

[Ricky Ortiz84]

Sorry nothing new been in kinda a drought with taking pics for some reaseon

[northswan04]

Juvi P irminia

[Arachnocat]

[DeeCasey]

Some of these you have seen and some of them you haven't.....Enjoy









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And Last but not Least-A Nor Cal Local:

[Ricky Ortiz84]

and the winner is lol my pet Tick!!!