rattler

11 years 10 months ago #233186 by lonewolf


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11 years 10 months ago #233195 by Squibble
OMG, I should not have looked, the one thing that truly terrifies me are snakes



It's a dogs life, yeah right!

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11 years 10 months ago #233207 by McBeth Photography
Please tell me that you shot this with a long telephoto lens...

Cool shot!

It is what it is.
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11 years 10 months ago #233397 by lonewolf

McBeth Photography wrote: Please tell me that you shot this with a long telephoto lens...

Cool shot!

not exactly a telephoto lens i have a point and shoot with a 42x zoom


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11 years 10 months ago #233398 by lonewolf

Squibble wrote: OMG, I should not have looked, the one thing that truly terrifies me are snakes

im not the biggest fan of snakes myself but in there own way they are beautiful creatures


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11 years 10 months ago #233416 by bluesydude
Very nice catch!

Focused on photography
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11 years 10 months ago #233435 by Scotty
I was about 15-20 feet away from one in the wild, why i was climbing some of the red rock up in Sedona.

If this wasn't taken in a zoo, you're nuts. I didn't even see it and I got the hell out of there. :patriot:

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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11 years 10 months ago #233496 by bhowdy
Is this taken thru glass?

Bob Howdeshell

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera" ~ Lewis Hine

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11 years 10 months ago #233663 by rmeyer7
I think that 42x zoom is equivalent to about a 1,000mm telephoto lens, so I'd say that's a pretty safe distance. :)

Although in my experience, rattlers will pretty much ignore you and leave you alone as long as you do the same for them. They don't want to be bothered and they certainly don't have any interest in getting close to you. I also just heard a statistic that a huge percentage (don't remember the exact number) of rattlesnake bites happen to young men under 26 and most of them with some influence from alcohol... So if you're just careful and don't mess with them, snakes like this aren't as big of a threat as we usually assume they are.


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