Snakes (2)

Challenge #19 in the Animals series. Hosted by mirceadumitriu, happy_hope.

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Pictures of snakes, of any kind. Please see additional rules.

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Announced:

Wednesday, 4th July, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Wednesday, 11th July, 2012 – Tuesday, 17th July, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Wednesday, 18th July, 2012 – Tuesday, 24th July, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Basic post processing only.
No frames, borders or watermarks.
Pictures aspect ratio shall be preferably 3:2, 4:3, 16:9 or 1:1.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Main subject(s) must be the snake(s).
Can be one or more living snakes.
The subject(s) must cover the majority of the picture.
Full colour only. Some snakes have great colours.
Any details regarding the species, characteristics, whether it's venomous or not, etc. is welcomed.
"Snakes (2)" means this is the second snakes challenge in my series Animals, coming one year after the first one. It does NOT mean that you have to mandatory shoot 2 snakes in one picture.

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by cgriff

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This is a scarlet king snake, Lampropeltis triangulum. It is not venomous.

Camera:	Nikon D3
Lens:	Nikon 105mm f2.8 Macro
Submitted:	Sunday, 15th July, 2012 19:19 (GMT)
Taken:	Saturday, 5th July, 2008
Focal length:	105 mm
Shutter speed:	111111/20000000 sec
Aperture:	F8
ISO:	1600
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Galleries:	View this photo in cgriff's gallery

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Beautiful. I had a lampropeltis triangulum annulata (Mexican milksnake).

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Actually a Scarlet Snake- Cemophora coccinea

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Sorry, 1/180 sec

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