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This is a male that was collected by a friend of mine in 1992... it’s one of the ones on the alterna poster. He’s starting to show a little age, but not too bad for a 15 year captive, huh?

This animal was WC near Sanderson a few years back:

An F1 CB animal that was produced by a pair of snakes I collected near Sanderson in 1993:

An F1 captive hatched Sanderson... many generations removed from the wild but with a diverse ancestry of WC snakes that date all the way back to a male I found combating with another male in spring of 1993. This was the first time this lineage demonstrated the potential to produce specimens with busy patterns:

Another CB animal produced by two WC snakes... I collected the mother, and the father was collected by a friend from Houston:

A holdback from another WC x WC pairing… I collected the parents on adjacent road cuts on back-to-back nights in 1993. I still have the adults.

Another example of a CB Sanderson animal from a WC to WC pairing:

this one looks like it anyway...
http://home.quixnet.net/dksal/alterna2007/JF 9miler.jpg
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http://www.hcu-tx.org

>>this one looks like it anyway...
>>http://home.quixnet.net/dksal/alterna2007/JF 9miler.jpg
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>>http://www.hcu-tx.org

I thought the same thing when I saw it....

ditto as well
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South Texas Herps

Freaking beautiful photos of some very attractive animals. Your lighting on these images is so dang perfect. What are you using? (you've probably told me before).

Brad Alexander

Thanks Brad!

The set-up is pretty simple... I was doing some home testing for a portable field unit that could generate soft diffuse light. I'm firing a radio-triggered off-camera flash through a diffuser. It's certainly less portable than your on-board flash diffuser, but large enough to allow me to shoot big snakes in-situ without all the harsh light usually accompanied by direct flash. If you want to share ideas, shoot me an email.

dsal(at)quixnet(dot)net

Those are all outstanding! I'd have to agree you appear to have an anery in the bunch... Thanks for sharing!

Chris

I hope at some point my own photos start to turn out like that! And that one is definitely an anery.
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Brad Chambers

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

Nice is not the right word... phenominal...

Damon,

Do you ever update your website with your "for sale" items?

Best Wishes,

Steven Owens

Thanks Steven.

Shoot me an email when you get a chance.

dsal(at)quixnet(dot)net

All of them are OUTSTANDING animals!!

I love the Anery & the Sanderson in the bottom pic!!

Great pix as well, thanks for posting!!

~ Mike Russo

Awesome photography and snakes. The one second from the top is the best IMHO.

Nice as always. Did you produce any 9-milers this year? I might want to swap some out. I am high female this year.

Bryan Box

email sent.

Sandersons, as well as Gaps, are the nicest alterna out there.
Do you still produce any West babies.

Unbelievable photos of amazing snakes there Damon!!
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Genesis 1:1

Damon,

I love all those beauties. The second one reminds me a lot of one I found on top of one of the bluffs behind Sanderson in 1999....were did you get the rock you photographed the animals on? Very nice images.....G