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JORDAN CADIOT
 September 2021The king is back. Always fascinating and impressive! |  August 2021Acanthophrynus coronatus |  July 2021Eggs development amblypygi |
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 April 2021Young Paraphrynus robustus |  March 2021Damon medius pullus |  February 2021A stunning lizard! Ouroborus cataphractus |
 January 2021Une image plus "simple" ce mois-ci, dans ma pièce là où s'est développée ma passion pour les reptiles, insectes et arachnides, là où vivent mes animaux, où je passe la moitié de mon temps, où je donne autant d'importance au vivant qu'à l'inerte (comme le montre cette photo). C'est mon univers, un peu curieux certes, mais passionnant ! |  December 2020Selaginella uncinata |  October 2020Maybe one the prettiest amblypygids species, but the biggest for sure! Acanthophrynus coronatus |
 September 2020Eresus kollari frontalis, aka ladybird spider. A wonderful find during my trip in south of France. |  August 2020I had a great pleasure to meet this species while a day off in Brittany (France). It is commonly called Purseweb spider or "Mygale à chaussette" in French, it's latin name is Atypus affinis. |  July 2020Portrait of a Phrynus marginemaculatus. A small and very pretty amblypygid species! |
 June 2020Babies Phrynus decoratus! |  May 2020Zamenis longissimus, the esculapian snake. This one is a young wild individual. |  April 2020This month it's a timelapse of a molting amblypygid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTiUiaGlxU |
 March 2020"Fascinating", i think this is the word i'd choose to describe them! |  February 2020This month I left ten days with a friend in French Guiana to find animals and photograph them, and of course, simply enjoy! Among the animals we observed, there is one that I absolutely wanted to see, I could not leave without having seen, amblypygids obviously! I couldn't be more happy because we were able to explore and spend several hours in a cave that housed many specimens. A true happiness! |  January 2020Details of an Heterophrynus sp. (amblypygi). Six images with a different focus have been used to make this one. By stacking those six images, the final picture has a larger depth of field, it is called "Focus stacking". |
 December 2019Heteropoda davidbowie, it's the sweet name of this huntsman spider. She's a bit impressing by its voracity and mostly its speed! But it's a really good subject to photograph. |  November 2019I published a photo book thanks to Saal Digital, at first it had to be a single copy, a try for me, just to see how it turned out. But when I shared the result of the book on social networks, it sparked a lot of interest to my surprise! And so, several people told me they were interested in buying a copy, incredible! I invite you to contact me if you are interested in purchasing a copy! |  October 2019This one, you’ve probably seen in your house before! It's a very common spider that appreciates our interiors, it is called daddy long legs or cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides). In this image it's a female carrying her cocoon (filled with eggs) with her cheliceras! |
 August 2019Here we are again at this long-awaited moment. The kings come out of the forest to reach their places, where they will do everything to keep their females. It’s always an incredible period, hearing their strong roar in the night, the pressure and the chills, always the same emotions year after year. Then sometimes we get a chance to see them, it’s often fast, but sometimes they give us time to admire them, like this deer that I was able to observe for an hour and a half. |  August 2019The view from the summit of La Berra, Switzerland. A beautiful sunrise with an incredible view all around La Berra, for me who comes from a very flat region, it's a dream! This view and this fantastic moment quickly made me forget the short night of four hours and despite the cold wind I didn’t want to go back down, I’m not used to seeing such a show! |  July 2019Wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi). A pretty and common spider! Here it's a female with a male that will be her meal! |
 July 2019Wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi). A pretty and common spider! Here it's a female with its exuviae and a male that will be her meal! |  Jun 2019This animal belongs to the arachnida class, from the solifugae order. We find them in North America, Africa, middle-east and in Spain. It's still unknown, and they are still rare in captivity, i've never seen a breeding success with these. |  May 2019Watch the video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkJ31_krfc |
 April 2019This is the name of this small gecko with its evil look, and its incredible mimetism. Uroplatus are kind of must-see animals in Madagascar, there is many species, with different size and morphology, but all are a bit complicated to find, sadly for us! |  March 2019Fritillaria meleagris, a beautiful flower, one of the first to bloom. |  February 2019L'Ahaetulla prasina is a saurophagus specie, it means they eat only lizards. |
 January 2019My boy, a Gonyosoma oxycephalum. Four year old, and what a pleasure to own him! |  Décember 2018Boiga dendrophila melanota mangrove snake. A stunning specie who's coming from Asia, as the previous one (Ahaetulla prasina), and who's also opistoglyph (rear-fanged). This is an impressive specie because she's quite big, more or less two meters, and because of its defensive behavior, mouth open with the "S" shape. |  Décember 2018 (2)Ahaetulla prasina, called "Asian vine snake", is a kind of vine snake, very thin and elongate. The head of the Ahaetulla is caracteristic, a long nose that we can compare to a TGV, and of course those eyes, with horizontal pupils.These snakes eats lizards mostly, it's an excellent hunter with an incredible vivacity. |
 November 2018Chameleons are very known reptiles, but still really interesting, there is a lot species (most of them from Madagascar) with different morphology (some are as big as a finger, and others as big as a forearm, and both of them can be found in Madagascar, crazy no?). They all have this impressive tongue, powerful and very long! This is what i wanted to show in this picture. |  October 2018 (2)Exceptionnally i have two images for this month, these are two very different pictures by their look, subjects, and type of photography. The tongue of one of my snake is a real small jewelry, i photographed it many time already but i wanted to retry it to get a better image, and it's done! I have to admit that i'm proud of this one! |  October 2018A great egret in the first sunray of the day |
 September 2018As each year they coming out of their hide, from the deepest places of the forest. As each year they coming out in clear places for about a month, a month that must be an eternity for them as they get very tired, but a month who seems very short for us, wildlife photographers. As each year in september the forest resonate, the strong and powerful roar of the red deers come to join the sound of the owls. As each year it's the red deer rut! |  August 2018In the beginning of august i saw a young leucistic nutria, when i went to photograph it i've observed an other individual, adult this time! |  July 2018What a nice surprise to see this bird, it's only the third time i see one. |
 June 2018Kingfishers are very common in wildlife photography, it's an interesting bird very pleasant to observe. Thanks to the youngs of this year, i've been able to watch them from two meters of my hide. I couldn't make focus with my big lense, so i took my 100mm macro lens, here's a result! |  May 2018This animal is more often seen on a road, crushed by a car, than living his life in the fields and forests. Tonight i had the chance to see one alive, with a nice light! |  April 2018Not a particular image, but what a meeting! I was photographing a butterfly when i heard a roe deer screaming, i'm not moving and keep my eye into my camera, then he scream again, so i look behind me, and this handsome guy was here in the field, going on my direction. He's walking, watching me few seconds, and then turn around. Great moment! |
 March 2018The last frozen night before spring and a beautiful meeting with many roe deer in the same field, they were running, jumping and playing, awesome to see. Three of them came to me without seeing me, they cross the road to go in an other field and left. |  February 2018YES, the hunt season is over (until the next one sadly...). Time to back out to find wild animals, and it's this european robin who's welcome me. I hope i'll quickly find the biggest species! |  January 2018En ce début d'année les salamandres sont de sortie, et en nombre dans mon coin ! Pendant une excursion nocturne j'ai pu observer cette pauvre salamandre tachetée accrochée par une grenouille rousse ! |
 December 2017For the end of the year it will be my handsome male Gonyosoma oxycephalum (red tailed green rat snake). One of my best subject for photos! |  November 2017An amblypygi (Damon diadema) right after shedding. The body is white because the chitin (molecule) is not regenerated yet, he'll find its natural colour few jours after, and between it, will have a superb metallic blue. |  October 2017Autumn is the breeding season for fire salamanders, so it's really easy to see them because they are a lot going out and walking in the forest. Your best luck to see some is to go inside a forest by a rainy night, and you should quickly find these. |
 September 2017For many passionate of nature, september means red deer rut. The breeding season of the king of the forest is a short but often magical, intense et impressive moment. I think this is the kind of animal that can give us thrill and make us go through every feelings, even after years of observations. It's a majestic animal. |  August 2017Roe deer who didn't know what to do, he was jumping on the left, approach me, then jumping on the right, approach me again... |  July 2017Roe deer tracks on a dry pond. |
 June 2017A beautiful male who came very close! |  May 2017Many fire salamanders to start the year! During an excursion i saw this poor fire salamander holding by a frog! |  April 2017A fern we find in number here, in France : Dryopteris filix-mas |
 March 2017An amblypygi, Stygophrynus sp. |  February 2017Gonyosoma oxycephalum grey form (Java) |  December 2016Damon diadema with her babies, and myself! |
 November 2016Damon diadema (amblypygi) with her babies on its abdomen. |  October 2016Salamandra salamandra, wonderful amphibian that i haven't seen much before (only once actually), until this fall, when you look for something, you find it. :) |  October 2016Salamandra salamandra, wonderful amphibian that i haven't seen much before (only once actually), until this fall, when you look for something, you find it. :) |
 September 2016September = Red deer rut for many people passionate by nature. Not many results for me this second year, not much activity... But I've had some great moments, like this evening, when a beautiful boy came close to me and stayed all the night, doing is thing. |  August 2016Sacred crocodile of Bazoule (Burkina Faso) |  July 2016Pinemarten, first time i see on alive! |
 July 2016Zamenis longissimus (esculapian snake) |  June 2016Young kingfisher |  May 2016Amblypygi molting process |
 April 2016 |  March 2016Offering from the male to the female. |  February 2016 |
 January 2016Gonyosoma oxycephalum |  December 2015Amblypygids are neither spider, nor scorpions, they are a different order who belongs to the arachnida class. They are nocturnal and lucifugous arthropods, we say about them they are cavernicolous, so we can find them in caves et caverns, hiding from the light. |  November 2015Gongylus gongylodes |
 October 2015 Hymenopus coronatusHymenopus coronatus |  September 2015First red deer rut for me, impressive! Seeing and earing for the first time this big mammal, powerful and impressive, did something to me. Can't wait the next season! |  August 2015Female kingfisher with a prey, backlight, under a small rain. |
 July 2015 |  June 2015Since i photograph the kingfishers, i've always wanted a picture with many kings, here it is! Fast but wonderful scene! |  May 2015My first red fox, what a nice animal! |
 April 2015 |  March 2015 |
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