Macro Photography By Thomas Shahan

It was Shahan’s page on the photo-hosting website Flickr that brought pictures face to face with this eerily beautiful animal. But Shahan didn’t stop with one jumping spider. Oklahoma is home to at least forty kinds, and Shahan is on a mission to photograph them all, each in astounding close-ups.
“How one of the most beautiful and interesting groups of animals on the planet can go unrecognized and unappreciated is beyond me,” he says.
Shahan is doing his part to change that. So far, he’s photographed thirty-six jumping spiders. His Flickr page also shows larger objects: the Milky Way galaxy, for example, and a scaly-looking slice of the moon.