Snakes and Stones

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #278

BP: Pastel/Het Piebald

[Lord Sorril]

I was out late last night at a Haunted Woods event and I was exhausted today.
As I was laying in bed staring at a broken deer skull in the corner: I started thinking it might look cool to
do a group shot by putting ball pythons on the antlers.

It seemed like an easy photo, but, not quite.

My original plan was to have 11 ball pythons in this photo including:
2 large Black Pastel females (one behind/below each antler), and a GHI/Fire behind the skull curled up holding the blue brazilian agate in her coils.

Balancing issues aside:
-the two Black Pastel females decided to leave (due to their size-I had trouble positioning them both simultaneously)
-The GHI/Fire refused to coil around the agate before she decided she had enough and became defensive
-The Piebald top right kept striking at me hungrily and falling off the antlers onto the Firefly below
-The Firefly lower right was really-really angry (the piebald falling on her did not help)
-The Firefly Clown (center) also kept falling backwards off the skull and would lay upside down and stare at me in confusion

The photo came out OK though, symmetry is a little off, but, I am pleased with it.

[Bogertophis]

I love it! Even without all 11 snakes- Getting this many snakes to remain in position, well, you did great!

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #279

BP: Lavender Albino

[Albert Clark]

Every photo should take first place! The lavender albino is extra special!

[Lord Sorril]

Every photo should take first place! The lavender albino is extra special!

Thanks! After 8 years of heavy use I think I need a new camera.
I had a bunch of Snakes and Stones photos that came out pretty hazy/blurry. I tried to troubleshoot with no success.
Luckily Black Friday/Cyber Monday is coming up! I will see if I can upgrade to a Olympus TG-6 (from TG-5).







At Low Resolution these photos don't look too bad.
At High Resolution these photos are a mess...lol.

[Lord Sorril]

As I mentioned previously I was having some trouble with my camera (pixels dropped, blurring etc).
I bought a new camera on Cyber Monday (Olympus TG-6).
Took me a while to receive it-so unfortunately I had to sell some ball pythons before I got a chance to photograph them.
Ahhh well, I still have my holdbacks...

Shown below is the lens of my TG-5 after 7 years of adventures.


Photo #280

Pastel VPI Axanthic with tumbled/polished Rubellite
Rubellite = Pink Tourmaline in Quartz

Tough material to tumble because it was heavily fractured when I received it (due to the mining process).
Does make a nice photo-if one does not look too closely.

[Bogertophis]

Beautiful! And I can see why you needed a new camera, lol.

[Lord Sorril]

Beautiful! And I can see why you needed a new camera, lol.

Yeah, it makes a world of difference!

Merry Christmas All!

Photo #281

Pied with a Brazilian Agate.

[Bogertophis]

Beautiful! Looks like we're all getting to enjoy your new camera-