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still rummaging around for a decent big snake shot that isn't a slide...

I suppose you've seen this one before, too?

By the way, the weird reddish splotches are a lousy effect that happened from scanning the magazine this photo is from - it is NOT blood...long bad scanner story...I'll scan it again, eventually.

This is the female that tried to eat the cameraman, a predatory strike we got recorded ON film. Can you believe the Discovery channel didn't show it because they said the quality of the film "wasn't good enough?" Since when did that stop them?

RO

Great pic. You are sooo lucky to be able to work with wild condas. I'm jealous.

Keep up the good work,
Arik

Of course I have seen that pic...I have stared at it for hours. In fact if anyone in this forum has not seen that pic, then their internet research on anacondas is about none. maybe I am a little more obsessed than most others but I would assume everyone in this forum has read all of your studies available on the net. Who in here does not have the dvd "Anaconda:Giant snake of the Amazon"?(I believe that photo and that video are from the same day...am i correct?) I make my girlfriend watch it with me before we go to bed : )

Red, you are awesome and really fortunate to get to work with these lovelies in the wild. I can only hope one day to reach my goal of being out there (I really want to be a National Geographic Explorer). ;D

I love all the big boys (and the little species too). ;D For now I just have retics, boas and burms...but, once I am officially breeding retics, I hope to get an anaconda again.

Amanda

My advice would be to become a successful independent, whether you're a cameraman, sound person, (or if you want to make less money, a field biologist), journalist, etc., and hire yourself out to National Geo, and the others. The nature film business is one of THE most fickle businesses in the world; the really skilled people are really frustrated with it these days. Most of the filmaking individuals I worked with, though not all, knew next to nothing about wildlife. They were all film school graduates, or similar. (Rule #1: NEVER believe everything, or even most, of what you hear on nature films, unless it is on PBS. Competition makes veracity a low priority.) And, just to be more depressing, there are many good PhDs out there who can't find a job. HOWEVER, the field of conservation biology is growing, by necessity...

Persistence, and a supplemental income, help.

Renee