Let's see some reptiles...

Woodyg3

Woodyg3

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This Bullsnake made a rattling noise, which they can do to mimic a Rattlesnake, and frightened the heck out of me when I was walking through some thick brush by a lake. After I jumped 5 feet, I took some pics.

It was very dark, long lens with no VR, so I had to shoot at 6400 ISO. Still not too bad.

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cwgrizz

cwgrizz

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This evening I was out walking the dog around my place. It was just after the sun had gone down. Dog stirred this Mojave Rattler up. It is the fourth one on my place in three weeks. I guess it is that time of year.
The first two shots were underexposed and required quite a bit of PP to get them to a point to be seen. The last one, I finally remembered that I could adjust and brighten things up with a slow shutter speed and the f-stop wide open. Notice how the slower shutter speed on the last one blurred the rattles. Ha!
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Alan

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Learned something about turtles today. The top photo is a painted turtle, native to PA. The bottom is a red slider, a non native invasive species, the kind you buy in the pet store. It get larger than the painted and competes for habitat. People release them into the lakes and streams when they get too big to keep at home.

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Blacktop

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I was just sitting on the edge of the lake, contemplating my next move as to where to go next to shoot some autumn leaves, when this little guy climbs right out of the water and looks at me.
Gave me a few minutes of shooting. Then went back to where ever little turtles go in the middle of the day.:D

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STM

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My pet Ball Python "Slinky". She lived for 21 years before finally giving up the ghost. She was about 5' long, which is about as big as they will get in captivity. In all of those years she only bit me once and it was a case of mistaken identity. She was extremely docile. Female Ball Pythons go into semi-hibernation in the winter time, whereas males eat all year long. I am not a herpetologist so I don't know why, She was just coming out of that hibernation and the rat I tossed into her cage was running for its life (who could blame it?). I grabbed it and put it near her. Pythons do not see well, rather relying on their row of heat sensing pits around her mouth (easily seen in the image). Apparently my hand had a bigger heat signature than the rat so she went for my hand. She left some teeth marks in the "V" between my thumb and index figure but no biggie. A little bit of hydrogen peroxide and I was good to go.She eventually chased down the rat and got it!

 
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