copperhead

Here is a copper head! Enjoy.

HOSTED PHOTO
please log in to view hosted photos in full size.

very cool. i love how it blends into its surroundings.the exposure is very good as well

Thanks!! Shot in Raw. Played around with it some and now it looks ok. Could be sharper I think though but people insist that the 20d is sharp.. Could be the tamron though. who knows.

I like it alot. I used to catch those things with my dad when I was little. Im also from Missouri. What part are you in?

St.clair. There are a ton where I live. I spend lots of nights driving back roads finding all sorts of herps! Great fun.

We own 800 acres about 45 min NE of Springfield. Ive been at school for the last 9 months so no cool coperhead photos for me to shoot latley. In 2 weeks though....im gonna go find me some.

wow 800!!! Thats awesome.. Im sure I will post some more as soon as this rain clears up.

Very nice photo. It looks sharp enough on my Mac monitor. Copper heads may be very poisonous, but I find them pretty (my wife is terribly scared of snakes, though).

They are venomous but there hasnt been a recorded death in missouri from a copperhead bite in over 70 years. More people die of bee stings than snake bites. I find them very beautiful animals.

Very nice, i love snakes, probably my favorite type of animal. Just be very careful, its only a copperhead but it can still be quite dangerous. Nice shot, keep it up

Nice shot .. we have a guy trying to find us one now .. for school .. the science teacher and myself have combined a lesson on oklahoma poisionious snakes and the geography in which they live ...he is going to collect a bunch and bring them to school for kids to see upclose...

Sweet statement of color and camouflage for the copperhead. Flash is a little hot, but it doesn't look like you had many other options if it was in the wild and on the forest floor. I like it a lot. Watch where you step! I lived in snake country, but it was rattlesnake country out west. Bombed around Macon, Georgia, a bit too, but never hit the river bottoms where those nasty cottonmouths hang out. Yikes!

If there's any lack of sharpness it'd be from the Tamron, not the Canon, IMO. I shoot the 20D mostly, and the Canon 100-400L mostly for wildlife like this. I have a Tamron 70-300 macro, which isn't especially sharp and lacks some of the rich contrast and subtle color I get with the 100-400. Which Tamron are you shooting here?

70-300mm Tamron

I was struck by one of those..OUCH! laid me up all summer...

Trish

Nice shot btw..glad it was you and not me shooting...

Do copperhead snakes really smell like cucumbers? I've always heard that but have never seen one up close and personal

Nice shot, BTW