HUGE photo shoot!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I finally found a rather nice way to photograph my animals indoors. Since the sun sets at like 4pm, and it's cold out, this is a necessity! I did this by filling a shallow tray with gray calcium sand, the neutral gray color is EXCELLENT for capturing all of a snake's color, just like slate. It took much playing around with different types of bulbs for correct lighting but a desert UV light and a full spectrum coil bulb did the trick. The result was that the only thing i had to do to these photos was crop them, and fix some minor contrast issues, but I did not have to fix the colors to get true-to-life coloration. I hate it when you get that weird tint in photos and you have to manually fix each photo so that it shows what the snake REALLY looks like.This time I was able to capture all of their beautiful colors without any real effort. Now, if I could only muster up the $$ to buy a close-up kit for this camera!

So here are a bunch of random thamnophis and a few natrix and nerodia mixed in.

the newer female California Red sided. thamnophis sirtalis infernalis. I now own 2.2 of these beauties!




CB orange female flame eastern thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis




WC Potter County flame eastern thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis- I found her as a baby last summer.



My super sexy high black female Oregon Red Spot, thamnophis sirtalis concinnus. Picky eater but worth the trouble!









One of the nicest gifts I have ever recieved, a male orange wandering,thamnophis elegans vagrans.





And this actually is one of his sons, who is FLAMING FREAKING YELLOW. He just GLOWS and it's crazy. Sibs are colorful too, but not like this one... Don Belnap owns the orange female that the above male sired. Since both parents are orange, I would imagine this yellow may turn orange as he gets older!





A red sided garter produced by Rhea, thamnophis sirtalis parietalis.





A baby male valley garter, thamnophis sirtalis fitchii.



A baby female, and my favorite of the bunch for her glowing contrast




Young adult male Eastern Blacknecked garter, thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus. My 1.2 trio were all produced by Joanna Duby.







One of the newest of my bunch, I had recently adopted a rather large group of adult garters and two of them were female albino checkereds, thamnophis marcianus.









A really crappy photo of my normal female chicago garter, thamnophis sirtalis semifasciatus. She would not stop striking at me and chewing into my hand so I had to take a quick one!


My female CB 09 Santa Cruz, thamnophis atratus atratus. she is a beautiful teal blue color.








And here is my male, he is a lovely dark evergreen color with light green and yellow cheeks!







Male albino redsided, these are HOT STUFF. Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis.