Herp-in-habitat photography
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Eastern Hellbender-Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
Pennsylvania
2016
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Sorry for ignoring everyone's photo streams and not posting, Ive been busy and have had zero outdoors time.
BUT:
Got up at 4am yesterday, drove 4 hours each way (I may have an obsession), and spent several hours snorkeling in a creek with these ridiculous giant salamanders. Eastern Hellbender. They don't even make sense as an animal and I love them for it. Theyre the largest salamander in North America and can reach lengths of 2 feet. Theyre also extremely endangered but this population seems to be doing quite well for now. Also happy to finally be back to underwater photography! Not my favorite shot from yesterday but I do like this one a lot.
PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR LOCATIONS
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Close shot of a Northern Water snake(Nerodia sipedon). Maybe its after that dragonfly nymph. Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. HMM
Note what looks like remnants of a recent meal smeared on her mouth and face, and a mosquito is perched on her neck. The mosquitoes were thick tonight. I hate to spray myself with bug spray because I don't want any to get on my camera (or on the wildlife I may touch), but it may no longer be optional.
7 June 2020, Cayce, SC, USA.
I found two box turtles along the bike path this evening. Neither were willing participate in my wild photo adventure.
Samsung Galaxy S7, 1/125 sec at f/1.7, ISO 40, 4.2mm, flash, close distance.
28 Jun 2018, Saluda Shoals Park, Irmo, SC, USA.
Murray-Sunset National Park, Victoria, Australia
Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.
Finely, a willing subject. It's been a slow wildlife photography month around here.
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm. 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 400, 500mm.
3 Dec 2018, Columbia, SC, USA.
I am going to be posting some really old photos of snakes for a while to get them onto flickr. I wanted to upload the full size versions here to have in my albums. Some of these I uploaded a long time ago in very small sizes and those old images in some cases taken 15 years ago are really showing their age on modern 4k screens. This one was taken back in 2010 with the Fuji HS10 which was an upgrade from the Fuji S7000 I had been shooting. In looking back through old photos I think that S7000 actually took better sharper shots.
Close up of a common tree snake. One of only a handful of representatives of the colubrid family found in Australia.
Location: Highlands of Pahang, Malaysia
Toxicity: Venomous
Distribution: Southern Thailand and Malay Peninsula
Wide-angle lens-testing mode
It was raining heavily last night! The rain makes this snake look so shinny and wet.
Just one snake and that was also a lucky break.
Specific epithet:
Named after the Latin adjective fucatus, that could be translated by “with make-up”. It was used in classical Latin language to describe the red and white hues harboured on their cheeks by actors of the ancient Latin theater, and was chosen here in allusion to the bicolor white and red postocular streak present in some males of this species.