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Some of mine are.........Carl Kauffeld, Rodger Conant, Ronald Markel, F.N Blanchard, Kenneth Williams and Carl Ernst. I'm sure I'm missing more. Your Influences?

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Bill Haast.
Todd Hughes

Raymond Lee Ditmars and William Haast are the icons for me. I have always appreciated the descriptions of the habits of the snakes by Ditmars. Something only learned through countless hours of observations. And why you can’t settle for just one kind...
Ditmars (not my picture)

and some of my pictures of Haast back in the day

Both in field herping and herpetoculture.

Rich Gassaway

Marty Feldner

Brendan O'Connor

Chris Garcia

Chris Davis

Scott Potts

And many others, to include those from this forum.

Kerby...
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Lonesome Valley Reptiles
www.lonesomevalleyreptiles.com
Specializing In California Kingsnakes

animals, especially my dogs

If we are talking about authors or people and not nature ( I really liked FR's response) it would first be my field guides and then Kaufelds book.

If anyone wants some good reading I would reccomend Brian Hubbs new book on Mountain kingsnakes. Though it may just cover one species it is a fabulous account on many aspects of collecting stories.

Hmmm...

Andy Holycross

Tom Brennan

Randy Babb

Jerry Feldner and his son Marty

Louis Porras

Karl Switak

Dave and Tracy Barker

Bill Love

Many, many people on these forums...
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
2.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Everglades Rat Snakes
2.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.2.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
0.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
3.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (1.1 River Road, 1.0 Non-Locale Specific)
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
0.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
1.1.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
0.1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milksnake
1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognose
1.0.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

Still consider myself relatively new to the hobby. I've got to include not only authors, but also the wise "snake-heads" in general that I've had the privilege to learn from both directly and indirectly. That said, mine are;
- David Perlowin
- Rob Applegate
- Jarron Lucas
- Don Davern
- Markel
- Bill Haast
- Romulus Whitaker
- Jeff Corwin
- John St. John
- several people on this forum

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