` Green Anacondas can be incredibly colorful critters. Many have yellow bellies, with black spots, orange, white and black medallions, orange stripes on their heads, as well as green to gray upper bodies, with black and brown saddles. I've found, after seeing a snake previously described, that I never get an accurate impression of what it looks like from an oral description.
` Certainly, there are highly stressed Anacondas ( and lots of other species ) in captivity which don't like anything, including a camera, pointed at them. I've been taking flash pictures of snakes since flash meant flashbulbs. I photograph them eating, mating, at rest, and in action, indoors and out. There is nothing about the camera, or the flash, which necessarily bothers Boids, in my experience. I do most of my pictures with two strobes, one on the camera, and a slave at a different angle.
` Well adjusted Boids just don't seem to mind. During a recent series of flash pictures I was shooting of my community, the Ball Python got bored with it all, raised up his head and yawned. Then he went back to sleep as I took many more.
` Also, you might tell your friend to be careful around someone who always walks around with a large snake. You just never know.... Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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` These critters got a series of 20 shots, all with strobe, on this occasion. As you can see, they don't much care.
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` These two were mating when I started taking flash pictures. They did not pause, and I shot dozens!
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` Another flash shot, didn't bother him at all. So, take lots of pix, and post many on this forum!!
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