Image: Eyes of a Female Jumping Spider - Phidippus regius - Florida (8177287529)

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Here's yet another image of that beautiful Phidippus regius found during the Florida Bugshot workshop back in August.

This wonderfully fluffy Phidippus regius female (found by a helpful Guillaume Dury) was more than willing to pose for photos from several attendees to the workshop. Given that one of my ultimate goals while in Florida was to find this exact species - I'm grateful that I finally got a chance to photograph one of North America's largest and most beautiful Phidippus species!

The image above is a focus stack of 5(!) shots taken with a 28mm prime reversed on a set of extension tubes. The stacking was done in Zerene Stacker.

In other, non arthropod photography related news, the physics based puzzle platformer video game I've been working on for the past year with Colin and Sarah Northway, Incredipede, has been released! Check out the trailer, complete with all my weird woodcutty illustrations come to life here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxef7gelnI

...also - for those of you with Steam accounts, vote for the game to be picked up by Steam here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92701947&a...
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