Here's looking at you kid...
Our resident Carpet Python was on the driveway when we got home today, so I grabbed the camera with macro lens and dived out of the truck to grab some shots.
He was about 8 inches away at this point. Eventually he got curious enough to almost lick the lens before I stood up and he slithered back into the bush.
View all photos taken: Sunday, 9th March 2008, This photo: 2:12pm
Extremely shallow DOF!
Aww! Amazing Dave!
Pretty freaky to hear he is a resident... Other than that, Great Photo!!!
There are lots of nasties living in Dave's area, and some of them are outside in the bush too!
:-P
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Great shot - the focal point of the eye is so chilling yet beautiful!
You'd want to be pretty sure about your snakes though - a mistake you wouldn't like to make!
We had a girl in recently to our emergency department who had been drinking and was pretty certain a particular snake was harmless. Thinking she was so tuff, she proceeded to skin the snake alive in front of her friends when it nicked her on her finger.
A couple of hours later both were fighting for their lives. Mind you most of the doctors and nurses were hoping the snake lived.
The snake was a rough-scale. The girl was very, very unwell. We (unfortunately) saved her, although she did spend a fair amount of time in ICU on life-support!
This is a really good photo!
Now you weren't scared David were you ?
Nice capture although you probably had to be quick!
Yes, I'm very very careful around snakes. I've been watching this one for a while and taken several photos from afar.
In this instance I approached slowly and kept a very keen eye on it, looking for any signs that it might be uncomfortable with my presence. Ultimately after any photos I planned on taking, I needed him off the driveway anyway, as I couldn't drive the truck up there with him sitting across it.
Great focus on the eye, bang on. Creative title and narrative are very interesting. Always enjoyable to read a little about the situation and surroundings around your shots.
He looks cute - when can I see him?
Its a tremendous photo David.
As for that girl - that's why we have Darwin awards!
Amazing shot. Carpet pythins aren't dangerous right? 10 months in Oz and the most dangerous thing I saw was my Australian girlfriends wrath when I annoyed her :)
But on the whole, they're fairly harmless. :)
Sounds pretty harmless by Australian animal standards :)
Fairly harmless... yeah, fairly harmless isn't harmless enough for me I'm afraid though I live by the principle that anything that is vaguely sentient (and that includes some of my colleagues at the university) is to be allowed to live its life undisturbed by me...
As other people are saying here this is a wonderful use of the dof and I think it captures everything I think about snakes - fascinating but its pointless trying to empathise or reason with them because it ain't going to happen (I know a lot of humans like that too :-P ).
I don't kill snakes either, although I guess if it was it or me (or my family) then it might not survive the incident.