Looks like the start of a very nice collection. I like the pattern on the het pied....nice faded head and reduced pattern...very pretty. And the "hot female pastel" is very nice!

As for the comments on specific pattern elements...well...I think sometimes we tend to over emphasize and over analyze every little scale. The variations that can occur in "normals" (which includes hets in this discussion) are tremendous. It's kind of like looking at me and intently studying the freckles on my face and wondering if the really big freckle on my left cheek means something special. No...it's just a big freckle that is unique to me and has nothing to do with the genetics that got passed on to my children, except that they all have a small smattering of little freckles across their cheeks. (None of them ended up with the mass of freckles that I have, nor my big "beauty mark".)

That's one of the wonderful things about ball pythons....is how variable they are and how beautiful each and every one of them is, BECAUSE they don't look like every other one. I love green vine snakes, for instance....but I wouldn't ever consider having more than one or two in my collection because they all pretty much look alike. But with ball pythons...no matter how "normal" they are, we can always find "beauty marks" that make each and every one of them special.