I really should be at work

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited January 11, 2005 in Wildlife
but what the hell...im of the belief that life isnt a dress rehearsal & once the music plays..its over.

Soooo without any further ado....heeeeerrrrrrrrssss a spiders hairy chest ! Bet you didnt know that 'eh ?


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And some termites...a guard standing guard (can you say that ?) whilst the workers run for cover...done very orderly i might add.

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And last but not least...a very round beetle !

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    Just for the record, I am never moving to Australia.

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    Sid.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Just for the record, I am never moving to Australia.
    Seriously mate ...they are everywhere. Sometimes you can stand & look around you in the scrub & see half a dozen at once. The web is shocking stuff to get off a lens believe me. I recon i saw 20 big ones in maybe an hour.

    They are easy prey....just like the seagulls you fellas get.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    nice uh, nice *work* 'gus

    i guess there's someone, somewhere in oz, that is sitting in the dark now, eh what?

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    Yerbut..........................I'M having fun.
  • dkappdkapp Registered Users Posts: 985 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    but what the hell...im of the belief that life isnt a dress rehearsal & once the music plays..its over.

    Soooo without any further ado....heeeeerrrrrrrrssss a spiders hairy chest ! Bet you didnt know that 'eh ?


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    Another amazing macro. When you get a DSLR, I'd suggest a nice long macro lens. This way you can stand a little farther back from your..um.."friend" while doing the portrait work :D

    Are those poisonous? What am I asking...of course it is. Everything there hurts :D I guess my question should be, how close can it bring you to deaths door?

    Dave
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    dkapp wrote:
    Another amazing macro. When you get a DSLR, I'd suggest a nice long macro lens. This way you can stand a little farther back from your..um.."friend" while doing the portrait work :D

    Are those poisonous? What am I asking...of course it is. Everything there hurts :D I guess my question should be, how close can it bring you to deaths door?

    Dave
    Tks david..i will get a DSLR when i decide how far to dive in to it all.

    I really only shoot so much macro as its what the camera is good at. It only has a 3x zoom.. but macro i can do at 3/4 inch (19mm) f1.8 lens

    These are not regarded as dangerous but they will certainly get all of you attention if they do bite. They are a big tough spider. I will get biten sooner or later as they are the size of the camera & it wouldnt take much to climb 3/4 inch whilst im chimping at a fuzzy image in the viewfinder.

    Man i hope it doesn't get me on the lip umph.gif

    You will notice i dont post many photos of these
    http://www.avru.unimelb.edu.au/avruweb/Fws.htm



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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Yerbut..........................I'M having fun.
    Has Vicki Pollard made it to Oz yet??
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    gubbs wrote:
    Has Vicki Pollard made it to Oz yet??
    Whooooah there...i googled her name in google images eek7.gif

    Just had 'Little Britain...mate im still trying to get my head around 'league of gentlemen'

    The best humour in the world is pommie thumb.gif
  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    You've got to get "Little Britain", funniest show I've seen for quite a while rolleyes1.gif
    It started on Radio 3 and made it onto TV last year, it seems to appeal to everyone over here. Everybody, from my kids to my Mother in Law try to do one of the voices.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    gubbs wrote:
    You've got to get "Little Britain", funniest show I've seen for quite a while rolleyes1.gif
    It started on Radio 3 and made it onto TV last year, it seems to appeal to everyone over here. Everybody, from my kids to my Mother in Law try to do one of the voices.
    Got it over the last 2 months..excellent !!

    ....i still love creature comforts. The tortoise talking about Darwin being full of crap. " If darwin was correct then the offspring of people that jump from buildings would grow wings "
  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2005
    Humungus wrote:

    You will notice i dont post many photos of these
    http://www.avru.unimelb.edu.au/avruweb/Fws.htm



    .

    I bet you never get offered a job with the australia tourism department.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2005
    GREAPER wrote:
    I bet you never get offered a job with the australia tourism department.
    I tried to find a news article from the week-end but it was about a woman on a train in sydney last week whom put her hand into her handbag & got bitten by a funnelweb hiding there.

    They looove shoes to hide in also.
  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    but what the hell...im of the belief that life isnt a dress rehearsal & once the music plays..its over.

    Soooo without any further ado....heeeeerrrrrrrrssss a spiders hairy chest ! Bet you didnt know that 'eh ?


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    Nice shot, I'm glad you did such a good job, now I never have to try it myself thumb.gif
    Ed

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