Thank you for the nice compliments. Some coloring is really hard (for me) to photograph, especially when "one" doesn't know diddley-sqwat about lighting and camera settings. My Ghosts were absolutely the hardest I've ever done. Background color, the type/amount of lighting can really throw off their true coloring. I don't think I ever captured the true coloring of any of my Ghosts. I know someone like Celia or CE can do it. If my life ever slows down, I would love to take some classes.
With the SMs, I wanted to show people that they are not really black, which is how they looked right after birth. I don't care what color they turn out and if they stay in the brown/beige range, that's fine with me. The warm colors are my favorites. What I also wanted to show is how they are already starting to look airbrushed, with the dark flaking over the lighter base.
I don't know what they are doing or how they are doing it. The change is happening mostly these last two weeks - between sheds - not like they are shedding out to a new shade. I guess they are "losing pigmentation"??? in places, leaving the appearance of airbrushed flaking.
That's what I loved so much about their Uncle, the Purple Patternless. You couldn't see it as much in his pics, but when you held him under lights, it was truly awesome. He looked like a little creamy porcelain snake airbrushed in gradients of darker flaking.
I think these guys will do something similar. Perhaps not in purplish hues, but rather in browns. Although, the last time I saw the "PP" as a yearling, he had brown flaking over a creamy base, much like I think these will be as yearlings. I would love to see current pics of him.
What fascinates me is the WAY they are lightening up and how their outer skin looks transparent...like you can see into it. My pics don't show it well, if at all. But in the flesh, you can see it. None of my other boas have this and I've never seen it until now.
Enough rambling...
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Linda Hedgpeth
lindafh@frontiernet.net
Sierra Serpents
This darker background shows how they really look - pretty much. They are getting lighter and kind of stripey. I imagine they will continue to fade out. They should start into their next shed pretty soon. One starting turning silvery one day and I thought, hmmmm....maybe a different color coming out??? However, the little stinker did another shed about two weeks after it's post-birth shed!
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