Some older photos, ones I never had a chance to post

[krispyz]

Photographer: Krispyz
# of Photos: 3
Themes: 24-Stray, 31-High, 95-Shy

Stray  

Comments

[stlctyaly]

Lovely colors and composition.

[krispyz]

Thank you!

[trishtrash]

I LOVE stray and shy... what great pics!

[krispyz]

Thanks!

[redecember]

Stray and Shy are A M A Z I N G. I love the focus.

[krispyz]

Thank you! It was hard to focus on the Garter Snake... it kept trying to strike at the camera ^_^

[jaelle_n_gilla]

The snake is awesome, especially the tongue! It looks like one I wouldn't want to hold, i.e. a poisonous one. Is it?

The mountain top is great, too. A little color tweaking is ok I think :-)

[krispyz]

Haha, no, not poisonous. There are only two poisonous snakes in Wisconsin and they're both rattlers. This is a common Garter Snake (about as dangerous as your average corn snake), but it was vicious.

Thanks for your comments!

[jaelle_n_gilla]

Ah, I see! In Germany we have two kinds of "snake": The common adder/crossed viper and the ^blind worm", which isn't even a true snake. So children learn that "the colourful ones are poisonous and the dull ones aren't" and that's enough. I googled a little and the general rule of colour=poison applies here too. Just that in this case it's amphibians that suffer the results :-)

I think it's those colours that make the picture so pretty, at any rate :-)

[krispyz]

Yeah, usually that is true, the "brighter the color the more poisonous the venom" type thing, but it's kinda opposite in Wisconsin, here... Rattlers tend to be much more dull in color. So the smaller, non-poisonous snakes are actually quite brilliant in color.

I think the colors in the photo definitely make it as good as it was. I didn't know the tongue was that cool until I got this photo.

[break_the_stars]

Shy is excellent.

[krispyz]

Thanks!