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Dave Holland
{K:13074} 11/6/2003
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Thankyou, Laurie. We do have a few crotalus viridis viridis snakes here, about 50-100 within the Lethbridge city limits, in southern Alberta. The upper range of the prairie rattlesnake is just 100 miles north and east of here. Our incidence of snakebite in this community is one per year per 180,000 people, about 1/5 of the general US incidence. We found this one on his way back to the hibernacula for the winter.
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Laurie J. Herndon
{K:5338} 11/6/2003
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Aaaaaaah, a fellow herpetoligist. Nice Crotalus shot. Not shot in Canada obviously! See some of my "snaky" artwork on Webshots under Belladonnaphoto1 (Star Art)
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Dave Holland
{K:13074} 10/7/2003
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Oops, somehow the second part of my comment was deleted. Continued:
... less than 300 kb website requirement. At full magnification you can make out the forked tongue, but you lose that dynamic coil in the background. You don't need courage to do this, just a long lens with fill flash.
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Dave Holland
{K:13074} 10/7/2003
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Thankyou Dave, David, and Jorge. I agree, it is a little fuzzy when you look for details on the face. This is mainly because of the small file size needed for web viewing. I scanned this as an 105 Mb file, then sharpened and oversharpened (too much?). Then I compressed with medium compression jpeg to conform to the
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Jorge Americo
{K:1075} 10/6/2003
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Very good shot and courage!???
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David Conti
{K:360} 10/6/2003
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Grande foto!.......
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David Ziegert
{K:378} 10/6/2003
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You did a great job getting the catch light. I'm not sure if it's my monitor, but it seems like the shot would look even better after the sharpen filter is used on it from PS. I love the feeling of action from the low depth of field.
Dave
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