Face to face with an alien
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- MikeBinOKlahoma
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Face to face with an alien
Reticulated python, up close and personal as he decides whether or not to invite you to dinner!
Reticulated python
Python reticulatus
controlled situation
90mm lens with closeup diopter
1/250th second @ f/16
ISO 100
flash as main light
Mike Broderick
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"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.....My mandate includes weird bugs."--Calvin
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- hidden.forms
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Wonderful shot, wouldn't want to be to close to it
Craig Gilder
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This image frightens me.
It is an interesting reaction. The rest of your pictures, I find attractive or thought-provoking or amusing or quixotic or...
But this one is different. It scares the beejesus out of me and I don't know why. I'm not going to spend a lot of time studying the issue either, because I'm going to bed soon and I really don't want nightmares!
You done good, Mike.
--Rik
It is an interesting reaction. The rest of your pictures, I find attractive or thought-provoking or amusing or quixotic or...
But this one is different. It scares the beejesus out of me and I don't know why. I'm not going to spend a lot of time studying the issue either, because I'm going to bed soon and I really don't want nightmares!
You done good, Mike.
--Rik
Ya all pet the snake all you want, I will just watch. From a distance of course. Did ya all see the movie Anaconda? Great head-on image there Mike, good work!
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- MikeBinOKlahoma
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From what people tell me, Reticulated Pythons are a lot meaner than the anacondas. I've heard a number of stories from past and present staff at zoos (not just my zoo) telling about how aggressive they are. We have a large anaconda in our zoo, and I don't photograph him often, he is pretty passive. Our Retic moves around more, and doesn't like me getting close. He's struck at me several times (with glass in between, so no danger). I'll take an anaconda over this for a roommate anyday!Ken Ramos wrote:Did ya all see the movie Anaconda?
Mike Broderick
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"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.....My mandate includes weird bugs."--Calvin
(reposts on this site of my images for critique or instruction are welcome)
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"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.....My mandate includes weird bugs."--Calvin
(reposts on this site of my images for critique or instruction are welcome)
You know when I was stationed in the Philippines, pythons were a common sight in the jungle areas where I worked. Some were well over 18 feet and some odd inches in length. Stories have it that in base housing, a python had got into a residence yard and had swallowed a young child. Quite a grousome story this is but it relates the dangers of these snakes that people often times want to have or do have as pets.
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Kenneth Ramos
Rutherfordton, North Carolina
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Reposts of my images within the galleries are welcome, as are constructive critical critiques.
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Rutherfordton, North Carolina
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It's always good to see a nice photo of the colourful Sulawesi retic, Mike.
BTW this is probably the type of retic that holds the Guinness world record for the longest snake. I think the record was for a 32' 9.5" retic from Gorontalo, Sulawesi (Celebes) island
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/con ... rdid=51013
Ken, I've also seen photos of retics that killed adult humans (one even swallowed a person). There is a dwarf subspecies that would be better as pets....
BTW this is probably the type of retic that holds the Guinness world record for the longest snake. I think the record was for a 32' 9.5" retic from Gorontalo, Sulawesi (Celebes) island
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/con ... rdid=51013
Ken, I've also seen photos of retics that killed adult humans (one even swallowed a person). There is a dwarf subspecies that would be better as pets....
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