Crab Spider Nests: The Silken Silk Fortresses of the Roadside Bushes
When shifting focus from phasmids and mantises to the world of arachnids, you find a completely different style of habitat modification. Insects excel at looking…
Arachnida
Extreme high-magnification macro photography focusing on the complex world of spiders and arachnids. Explore crisp, focus-stacked portraits highlighting the incredible eye structures, fine sensory hairs, and hunting behaviors of jumping spiders, huntsmen, and cryptic forest species.
An Unexpected Office Guest: Encountering a Bornean Earth Tiger Tarantula in Kuching
Finding wildlife in Sarawak isn’t unusual, but sometimes the micro-wilderness comes right to your doorstep—or in this case, right into the office corridors of Kuching….
Center of the Web: Documenting an St. Andrew’s Cross Spider
When we look at the micro-fauna thriving right outside our doorsteps in Sarawak, it is easy to see how perfectly integrated these creatures are into…
Framing the Silver Stretch Spider: Macro Photography of Borneo’s Long-Jawed Orb-Weaver
There is an entire ecosystem hanging suspended in the shadows of the Sarawak undergrowth. When you dial down your lens and move past the larger…
Redbeard of the Undergrowth: Face-to-Face with Borneo’s Heavy Huntsman
If you spend enough time looking into the dark spaces of the tropical understory, eventually, something spectacular looks back. On my final trek of the…
Chasing Shadows: Unmasking Borneo’s Cryptic Master of Disguise
There is a distinct thrill that only a macro photographer truly understands. You are slowly panning a flashlight across a tangle of rainforest foliage, looking…
