Tumbled and polished 'red and white' bead glass and a Het OG/66% Pos. Het Axanthic.
09-17-2021, 10:01 AM
richardhind1972
Re: Snakes and Stones
That's so cool,ove the galaxy one too[emoji106][emoji106]
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09-17-2021, 10:06 AM
nikkubus
Re: Snakes and Stones
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Snake galaxy. :O
Very similar to what I was thinking/seeing. It reminded me of the season cycle of the big dipper around the North star.
09-17-2021, 06:16 PM
Lord Sorril
Re: Snakes and Stones
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Originally Posted by richardhind1972
That's so cool,ove the galaxy one too
Thanks Rich! These glass bead photos are a real effort to set up and photograph. After I build the pattern I place the snake in a hide in the center and when I have the camera poised and ready: I will lift the hide and take as many photos as possible before the snake ruins the pattern. The red and white one above I think I got 6 photos total before the tail flicked outward and scattered half the pattern.
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Originally Posted by nikkubus
Very similar to what I was thinking/seeing. It reminded me of the season cycle of the big dipper around the North star.
As most artists do: I will totally take credit for the concept even though I had absolutely no intention of doing so....yeah yeah...the big dipper...stars and stuff...totally what I had in mind when I made the pattern...;)
09-17-2021, 06:26 PM
AutumnVanilla
Re: Snakes and Stones
All the work you put into these is greatly appreciated! love your pictures!
09-17-2021, 07:10 PM
EL-Ziggy
Re: Snakes and Stones
Your snakes, stones, and photos are all beautiful pieces of art individually and collectively. I’m a novice photographer and my question is how do you get your snakes to sit still for your pictures especially with those stone props in place? I have the hardest time photographing things, especially my snakes, when they’re in constant motion.
09-17-2021, 10:01 PM
Lord Sorril
Re: Snakes and Stones
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Originally Posted by AutumnVanilla
All the work you put into these is greatly appreciated! love your pictures!
Thank you!
I do enjoy messing around with the snakes and documenting the stones I tumble: so it is fun all around for me.
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Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy
Your snakes, stones, and photos are all beautiful pieces of art individually and collectively. I’m a novice photographer and my question is how do you get your snakes to sit still for your pictures especially with those stone props in place? I have the hardest time photographing things, especially my snakes, when they’re in constant motion.
I know a lot of people use phone cameras and I've seen some super sharp pictures out of the new iPhones, but, I'm old-school where I stick with a separate camera for photos. My last camera was a Nikon DSLR and one of my ball pythons knocked it out of my hands and it conveniently fell four feet into a bucket of water and met its costly demise. For the last few years I've had my trusty Olympus TG-5 and it has seen quite a few tough adventures and is still working great. I remember there is a Youtube video of a guy testing how much abuse the TG-5 can take and still function--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qTcrk7G-0M In the last few years I've done a lot worse to it and it is still taking working well today--the big drawback to the model itself is that it has no long distance zoom. I can show you a lot of long distance blurry wildlife photos--which could be a moose, could be a bear, or could even be a squatch...
Yes, in my experience ball pythons are usually not thrilled about being photographed and are either on the move or curled in a ball. There is a short period of time when they decide to 'make a run for it' and uncurl from a ball and assess the layout of the environment (lots of tongue flicks): that is the time to get the best photos--I snap as many as I can before the snake starts getting defensive about being redirected away from its escape route. Older ball pythons are usually not as nervous as the younger ones and are going to behave according to their personality (for better or worse), I find my poor-tempered adults to be the most challenging to photograph.
Of course some of the younger bps are perpetually stuck in 'feed mode' until they grow larger...they are going to be bite anything that moves with a heat signature (like my hands): https://youtu.be/EJKu96_TXus
If they behave like this I just have to wait a month or two:
I don't sell biters until they calm down so there is no rush for me to take photos of them until they are older.
Photo #154 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...ifwrbkbrth.jpg
Some local granite...due to the mixed hardness of the material it is often tumbled to a mottled polish--unless there is a fine-grained formation or a particularly large composition of one type of mineral.
