Jeff was complaining that he couldn't take a good photo to show the size of his large Monster Island triangulum, and Doug Mong & Amazondoc were giving him ideas on how to show the scale of the snake against a tape measure or yard stick by putting the snake against a wall w/ the tape measure or yardstick next to it as the snake moved down the wall.
Here is Jeff's latest photo.

I agree w/ Doug & Amazon, that the photo doesn't do the milk any justice for it's large size.
I thought I'd try and take a few photo w/ a yard stick for scale (as I couldn't find our tape measure, what can I say I've got kids). But the yardstick I think works just fine.
A yardstick is three feet long, or 36 inches. I have a rather large syspila that I've always wondered how long she is. Stretched out and held down she is 40 inches, four inches longer then the yardstick. Pretty big for a North American milk.

I also measured a 5 year old honduran I have.

He measured four feet two inches or 50 inches.

Well, I think the technique worked pretty well. I could leave the snake to crawl down the wall step back and take a photo w/ the yard stick next to it for scale.
This took me all of about ten minutes to photograph and load in to photobucket. Give it a try if you have to prove how big your snake is on the forum.
Or you could just take a five foot kid and have him hold the snake up.

-Dell







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