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here are a couple nice looking "Tangerine" Honduran Milksnakes I had many years back........enjoy!

another Tangerine Honduran Milksnake

Here's a very recently discovered recessive genetic trait, these are known as "extreme" hypo Honduran's. With an excessive amount of reduced melanin(dark pigment)to the point of the bands becoming much thinner, slightly vanished, and zero black scale "tipping", and a MUCH cleaner brighter over-all appearance. Even the eyes are a deep "ruby-red".

Here is another "extreme" hypo from a different blood-line

best regards, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

thanks for sharing!
For the day it looks like you had a pretty good camera even then but it pales in comparison to whatever you're using now...
When did you get into snakes anyway and what kind of camera are you taking those pics with? The colors always come out great.

First off, thanks a bunch for the nice compliment, I appreciate that.

Well, the really funny thing about the camera I was using, is the fact that it was an absolutely AWESOME one that I got from my Dad, who is a semi-pro photographer, and the camera was a Canon AE-1 35 mm SLR. Thing is, without being a pro myself, and not fully understanding them the way my dad did, it was always a toss of the coin as to how the pics would come out in different situations. I've gotten some mind-blowing pics from it, and I've gotten some extremely poor ones too, and I never really knew how they turned out until I got them back from the drug store after paying a huge premium!..GRRR!

But now, I have a handy digital I got last year, a Canon PowerShot A-540, that I'm very happy with. Heck, I just take a bunch of pics in what I hope are good lighting, and after alot of trial and error, start getting a feel for what works with certain techniques, etc.. and just delete the ones that don't quite make the grade,....believe me, I have to take a fair amount of shots to get a few really good ones, but boy!, is it handy just to download to the computer, crop, etc...rather than wait until your film is all used up, then wait around forever until it gets developed at a drug store!..LOL!

On another note, I've been heavy into snakes for 41 years now, I was interested, and intrigued by snakes ever since I can literally remember. Luckily, my parents were alright with snakes, so that opened the doors to being able to have them at a very early age. I was six to seven years old(now almost 48) when my mom let me keep a Rough Green Snake that I caught, and did fine with it for a while, this of course led to some nice Miami Corns, Yellow Rats, Indigos, Florida Kings, etc...

I fondly remember bringing one of my 6 foot Indigo's to my third grade "Show & Tell" session at elementary school, I even knew the scientific name to many snakes even back then. I really enjoyed reading all about them, and looking at all the cool pictures in all the books I had, hoping to own a bunch of the unobtainable species that were in those books one day. Well, as you might imagine, owning snakes has never stopped, and I've bred and owned many many hundreds of snakes ever since then, maybe even thousands including all the hatchlings. And so the story continues!..LOL!

thanks again!, ~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Doug,
What you just said is why I respect your advice as highly as I do.

And an excellent photographer to boot!

Slither on.....

Wayne
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1.2.9 Storeria dekayi Casper, Xena, Athena, & Kids
0.0.2 Thamnophis marcianus - Checkered Garter Snakes
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - common Garter - Princess
0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua"
0.1.10 Storeria occipitomaculata - Red Belly snakes
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Juvinile CB
0.1.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB
1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major
0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER" CB
0.1.0. Green Anole "Crystal" WC
1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo
1.2.0. Feline"Felix" "Kaja" & "Silver"
0.1.0. calico RAT
2.4.?? Mice - Feeder farm - Crickets / fish
More herps than I could ever list out back on the land.

>>> "Slither on....."

LOL!,...I like that!

Thanks!, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

a life story in a few paragraphs

I got the 540 Powershot last year as well and have been very impressed with the photo quality. Most of the pictures I take are macro and I've found that once you take a little time to play with the manual settings and focus some awesome shots can come out. For a camera that is marketed as a "point and shoot" it really delivers.

That you have the EXACT same camera!..LOL!

Yeah, the instruction manual I thought is pretty user unfriendly, as they have very vague brief explanations(sometimes) of what something does, and they continuously have you going back and forth from the thick book, to the basic book every other second,..but once you get past that, and start getting the "hang" of it, and experiment with settings/techniques, etc... you can really get some killer pics as you mentioned!

Good luck with yours, man!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"