Maybe I'm the only one, but I have concerns about the legitimacy of those washed-out photos. I know that some people like to dress up their photos with mirrors or different background techniques, but it looks to me like the flash reflecting in the mirror is playing tricks against the snake. I'd love to see pictures in natural light just after a shed, even if he's not in shed right now. I say that because I have a male normal whose color ranges from caramel to dark chocolate depending on how long it's been since his last shed. Right after a shed he'll be the creamiest shades of caramel you've ever seen, and then as time goes on, a few weeks before his next shed he gets to be these 80-90% cocoa dark chocolate colors. There's something about the pattern of that snake that I don't see with my boy, but it raises questions in my mind about what his true color spectrum is.