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PWI Photography, Perth (2026)

30/08/2026

Good Evening and Welcome to a Sunday Post!

Busy weekend with family things to do and stuff around home. Weather was insanely gorgeous too. No camera time but much enjoyed time out with my wife and one of the sons. A bit of this, a bit of that, a gorgeous pub lunch yesterday. Bit of car repairs today and got the ute back on the road after a few little issues resolved. Bit of gardening too. I will be making cumquat marmalade next week I think based on the fruit on that little tree! Was good all round
Busy week ahead as we begin intensive training for a new computerised maint management system starting tomorrow through to go live in October. Going to be so head screwing!

Tonight I wanted to showcase a bit of the journey of Maratus hunting that I, and many others, do. It starts in the off season with ideas of places to go and then into google maps or google earth and start looking for green zones and reserves. Then make a list and start workign our way through the spots when the season starts. This year my mission is to work on areas within 45-60 minutes from home, in spaces between 2 known species, looking for transitions and/or short range endemics. So far over the last few weeks or so, I have done 2 tracks of about a kilometre long each and stumbled into a new spot last Sunday.
So the Paj is my favourite tool. I can get this offroad and into some spots that some others cant get to. Being very mindful of any signage for dieback too. If it's sign posted, then its a no go for me. I wash my boots in a mix of water and metho before and after any walks too. Found a good little pull over in here to set up from and into the bush. It was swamp ground, which is common here in WA, and it was bordered by eucalypt, acacia, hibertia and then into swamp banksia and tea tree (melaleuca). I didnt venturte too far into the wet stuff. Even with my snake gaiters on I wasn't keen for a tiger snake confrontation. I edged my way around the sloping bank to the low ground checking near the eucalypts. A good spot to always check for Maratus. I saw several species of other jumping spiders and of course the mating scarab beetles. I then caught site of somethign else. About 4mm amongst the leaf litter was the second pic. Now I have a pretty good idea what this is already, I am hoping not, but I think I will be left disappointed. It's all good though and I will be back to confirm. You never know sometimes.
Want to have a guess at what species of Maratus this could be? It's a penultimate juvenile male. So next moult is coloured adult. Drop your guess in the comments!

Hope that little insight gives you some idea of my state of mind. Weird people doing weird things! LOL
Have a great rest of your Sunday and until next time, Happy Snapping! :-)

28/08/2026

TGIF! Welcome to the Weekend and a Friday Night Post

Busy week as usual and still got this head congestion hanging on. Seems to be a thing with several people at work with it. Ergo, some bug monkey brought it into work! You would think we would have learnt some things about contagious periods and how not to spread a virus by now.

Tonight's pic is another of the scarab beetles but this time one eating instead of fornicating! I was interested in the bi-colouring from the light angle and was pleased to get it in camera. Usually, or often, the flash will make them the one green colour from the directional light. I was shooting a double decker with the female almost brow-purple due to the light angle but they did the atomic drop on me never to be seen again!

That is it for now. Back Sunday with more hopefully. Until then, have a great weekend and Happy Snapping! :-)

26/08/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Mid-Week Post!

Well, the rain hit again today and it has been wet. Lots of flooding on the roads and a bit of the thunder and lightning. Was a day spent at work, so I did not care. The new native gardens I have had installed at work are loving it, so it was a good thing.

Today's pic is either the same guy or another male Servaea species of jumping spider that I happened along on the weekend whilst tinkering on Sunday. These guys are quite large, so I noticed it jumping along my fence line in the old garden stakes I have stowed away there. Ran in for the camera and fired off some shots of him to fill the gap of not being out much over the last fortnight. Hope you like him!
Very small 2x shot stack due to him not stopping moving and settings were 1/200, f11, iso 200, flash manual output at 1/64 +0.4, diffused with the CJ diffuser system. Cropped about 30% because I was able to get closer, but not as close as I wanted!

That is me today. See you again Friday with a new post. Till then, Happy Snapping! :-)

23/08/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post.

Been taking it easy this weekend and feeling a bit better for it.
Headed out today to get out of the house and spend some time with the camera exploring new ground. I am actually on the hunt for a transition species of peacock spider between a flavus and a tessalatus. Fingers crossed. But its leading me into some amazing new ground within 45 minutes of home. I will be getting out into these new spaces a lot over the next couple of months.

Spring is starting to rear its head as we come to the end of winter. the yellow hibbertia and acacia have started flowering and that means invertebrates coming into the spaces to feed and mate. Green scarab beetles are one of the firs to see in the yellow flowers, and today I found a few. These two were playing a game of heads down, bums up! Hope you like!
6x image stack done in the field, hand-held and manually bracketed. 1/200, f8, iso 200, manual shutter at slow constant (12 fps) and a diffused V1 Godox flash set manually to 1/64 +0.5

That is me for this week. Back on Wednesday with more to share. Got a few other things to process off the card from today. Till then, Happy Snapping! :-)

21/08/2026

TGIF! Welcome to the Weekend and a Friday Arvo Post!

Bit of a week. Managed to catch this head flu from the eldest and it's not been great. Nothing I enjoy more than sleeping with my mouth open due to my nostrils being blocked and my tongue turning into a ball of dry cotton. Urghh. On the mend though. It's manflu so it's bad. The guys all know! 🤣🤣

Back to reality.....
Tonight's pic is a little stack I took of the Servaea species dude last weekend. This was a 6x images, handheld, manually focused for each bracket at 1/200, f11, iso 200 and manually output set flash diffused with the CJ 3D printed panel. Stacked in Helicon 8 this one as I was nice and steady, and processed in PS for this final image. Hope you like.

That is me for now. Weather looking good for the weekend. I will likely have a slow walk around somewhere and pump myself with pseudo based flu tabs. That stuff will have me pinging and shooting everything like a madman. Other than that, have a great weekend and until next time, Happy Snapping! :-)

16/08/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post!

No post Friday, sorry, was busy. But the weekend has been good weather and I had a bunch of things to do. My knee is about 90% now. Feels like I tore a bit of the quad muscle and that is on the mend. I know how I did it now too. No comment LOL .

I spent a few hours in the garden this afternoon tidying up some things and whilst applying some iron chelate to my lily pilly trees, a lovely large Servaea species of jumping spider decided to get out of there and landed on my arm. I relocated him to another one of my plants and gave him the camera treatment. I never garden without the camera within a quick dash from me, and this is why.

A single shot of this fella and he was in the larger bracket of around the 6-8mm bracket. Hope you like Mr. Angry Face!

That is me for the week. Back on Wednesday with more to share. Have a great rest of your Sunday and until next time, Happy Snapping! :-)

12/08/2026

Good Evening and Welcome to a Mid-Week Post!

Busy, busy as usual. Knee is getting better slowly. It looks like a bit of a pulled quad muscle in the leg which is affecting the knee so it's been tiger-balm, heat pack and light stretching. I am mobile again so that's a good sign.

Tonight's pic is a cute little grasshopper that poked its head out at me whilst I was shooting the other week. Took off rapidly after this shot but I love seeing the colours and patterns of some of the grasshoppers we have here in the local bush areas.

Short n Sweet tonight. Back Friday with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

09/08/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post!

Well yesterday was rubbish. Cold, rain, hail, windy and just yuck. So that was a day spent making soup which means there's a pot of spiced pumpkin and red lentil soup AND a cream of chicken soup that took waaaaay too long to make. 4 or so hours in total, but yum!
Today was insanely different. Gorgeous right through till this afternoon which allowed me some camera time and some dog walking time. Only issue was I somehow tweaked my knee. How? My guess is age and getting up too quickly LOL. I will live though.

I hit my local Martus gemmifer spot today and met up with other macro photo people. Showing gemmifer dancing to others for their first time is always something I enjoy, a lot. He never fails to impress.
I wasn't about to be squatting up and down with my sore knee so I just enjoyed the weather and waited for something else. I saw a male gemmifer with a big feed happening and shot that instead. Happy I did too. And that is today's pic. A single shot Maratus gemmifer with a long legged fly, or a crane fly as its lunch. If you know what it is, feel free to ID in the comments. Thanks in advance.

That is me for this week. Back again mid week with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

07/08/2026

TGIF! Welcome to the Weekend and a Friday Night Post!

Another week in the bag and it felt longer than usual. Weather has done its usual and turned the rain back on just in time for the weekend when I am free to go out and shoot things! We shall see what comes and I am sure there will be periods of no rain to get out into the local areas.

Tonight is one from during the week from my back yard.
Scenario is dog out for last wee before bed. I look around as usual with my headlamp on and spot something eating something on the fence. Fence is sitting on top of a 2.3m high limestone retaining wall. I get little 2 step ladder and look closer. It's a thing I want to now shoot. Rush in to get camera. Cant quite reach properly to use the view finder so I decide I will do a manual stack using the rear LCD of the camera. 11x shots later, we end up with this pic. There were a few more but I strayed off of the XY axis whilst wobbling on the ladder.
So, it's a female Jotus species of jumping spider eating an Oxyopidae, a Lynx Spider.

That is me for today. Back Sunday with more to share. Have a great weekend and until next time, Happy Snapping! :-)

05/08/2026

Good Evening and Welcome to a Mid-Week Post!

Typical crazy week at week. Started with phone calls on Sunday afternoon to inform me it will be busy due to an outage of a production plant. But we are getting through it all. A great team of people, working together and stuff gets done.

Tonight is one from last month, because it is August now if you didn't notice. Where does the time go? Anyway, this is a Hersillidae, a two tailed spider and most likely a Tamopsis species. This is a juvenile that I found one night hanging from its "rope". I disturbed it enough that it climbed back onto the branch for safety. Would have been rude of me not to take its picture and show its pretty decent camouflage.

That is me for now. Back Friday with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

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