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I decided to try and get some nice pictures of my snakes this afternoon. I started with some of the cornsnakes that had just shed. I was experimenting with a new technique. While dangling the snakes mid-body I was trying to get shots with a black background. I got some nice shots of the corns.

Then without thinking of the process I was doing things in I grabbed my kingsnake. Needless to say I only got off the one blurry shot, then set her down while the flash recharged. I looked down and seen the kingsnake sverving at me with hunger in it's eyes.It must have smelled the baby corns I was just taking pics of, It quickly snapped at the air and then at my camera strap.
Got some cool picsa of it wrestling the strap then left it still and she released right away.

Lesson to self photograph kingsnake first!




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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)

I had an opposite problem. I handled my Eastern King for quite some time and put him back in his tank. I then went and tried to take my corn out of her tank. As my hand got near, she flicked her tongue, arched her neck and started crawling sideways like I was trying to eat her.

Yep, other good lessons that I have learned the hard way...

- take care of the mice colony last.
- don't go to pick up the pet rabbit after handling snakes (rabit bites are much worse then snake bites

those black background pics are pretty sweet, but I would imagine its hard to get them in focus as they are flailing around.

The black background is actually the rest of the room but with a righ aperature and quick shutter speed everything more than 3 feet away shows up black
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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)