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Those top two and the bottom one are the best of the best! I like the blondes, but not as much as almost any normal patterned end of the color spectrum snake!
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Todd Hughes

I concur, that last one is a real screamer, love the silver!

Matthew

Those are just gorgeous!, and the photography is really outstanding as well!

~Doug
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Those are sort of ok...I'll take one of each please. I find the top left and RRBM1 to be especially nice. RRBM1 looks fake it's so bright! Great photos to boot!

...is that your site?

the photography was done by Bob Hansen. Its my site, and yeah that wild blonde does look fake. I turned down the saturation, but its still flourescent. Its more orange in person. I agree with you Todd, the normals are my favorite too. If a snake naturally has an intricate, high contrast pattern with many shades, why screw it up. I guess its just a matter of rarity.
Thanks again

heheh, don't get me wrong, I LOVE the morphs of this species, but I fell in love with a wild caught and have been smitten with that quality that is hard to express, each locale has a subtle variation all its' own, and the extreme ends of the ranges are really something to marvel! I have a few now, lol, and I have to say that pink, tan, orange, yellow, gray, silver, blonde, they are all great! I only have one morph, a Trumbower axanthic blonde male, he is a true show stopper, but the beauty of the natural forms really blow me away.
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Todd Hughes

Awesome-love them all, but that last normal patterned silver is eye-popping!
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Brad Chambers
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I agree with Brad...that Silver is incredible. But the whole group is very easy on the eyes. Great photos. BTW, Blondes ARE "normal" over a limited range. :-D

normal is pretty ambiguous.

understood Dusty, I guess I have been somewhat limited in adding that locality personally, lol!
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Todd Hughes

Smokinnnn group of subocs!!!
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Randy Whittington

Wow! Nice--all of them. That SBF1 is sweet. Looks almost like a ghost it's so pale. And I agree with everyone else on that silver normal. What a beauty.

Just looking at SBF1 again, I assume SB stands for Silver Blonde. I don't think I've ever seen a silver with so much tan on it. I've seen some that have a bit of a tannish "wash" on the anterior part of the body. But never so much the entire length. Do you know the background on that one?

that silver normal is cool, real fast grower too, less the 18 months and pushin 3 feet. Im not sure about that silver blonde other than it came from Dave Katz. I assume he bred it. Shes 6 yrs old and really large, seems like the older/bigger she got that color became more prominent. As a hatchling she was pretty typical, other than having her blothces very washed out.