Best on black to see the threatening tongue. I saw this snake on our hike and when I stopped to take a few shots with my phone, he coiled up and warned me off! So glad we don't have poisonous snakes here!
Thanks for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs. Our internet is finally a bit better...that is to say it no longer takes 5 minutes to open one of your photos for my viewing. If there are any of your photos from the last week that you wish I had seen and commented on, please let me know
He’s very beautiful but I would be quite shocked to come across a snake when I was out. I have never seen one in the UK although I do know there are lots of fairly safe ones specially in the south.
Very nice shot of the snake. We do have poisonous snakes, rattlesnakes. The type we have is timid and tries to avoid encounters fortunately. As for what photos, you might search on the tag darkroom-duotone to see the different shots people came up with trying to learn the technique.
I'm ok as long as I see them first from a little distance - they terrify me when I don't see them until I'm about to step on them. This is a really neat shot.
Since most of our snakes are highly venomous the hairs on the back of my neck stand up immediately when I see one. Great image though. What sort of snake is that one?
Beautifully sensuous coils, glad he was harmless. I must be the only commenter who quite likes snakes (the harmless ones anyway), they have such a bad press
