Train Wreck or Like one...

Well, I went over to the Nature forum to look for a picture of the snake. Nothing to be found.

Rusted farm equipment is almost a cool as old barns.

I want to see the snake, train wrecks are everywhere.

What is that stuff? An old car or truck frame or parts from a train car?

Thanks Eric, sorry I didn't get a shot of it, had the wrong lens on and was totally "rattled" so even though I tried I was too late and left my other camera with a longer lens in the car. I did get a shot of another one a the local pond, but it's not really worth posting.

Pretty hard to aim and shoot over the shoulder at a dead run.

canonloader wrote in post #5994395
I want to see the snake, train wrecks are everywhere.

What is that stuff? An old car or truck frame or parts from a train car?

Well then let's see 'em. I've been intrigued by this since I first saw it. Certainly if it was closer to a museum it would be art, but since its "installed" in a sandy dry creek area I'm guessing it is for erosion control and judging by the vegetation that is growing around some of it, I'd say it's working - as well as rabbits, birds and snakes.

canonloader wrote in post #5994417
Pretty hard to aim and shoot over the shoulder at a dead run.

Well, I don't generally react that way to snakes, but yeah it did startle me for a second and I definitely stepped back quickly and by the time I realized I needed a pic, it had all but disappeared into the wreckage. Guess I just don't have the photographers instinct when it comes to preserving my hide.

Ha, I do. I was out on Aligator Alley one weekend and walking toward the canal when this monster rattle snake started rattling and coiled up into a round rug looking thing 3 feet across. I was looking at the ground when I first heard it, next think I knew, I was 8 feet back in one step, and don't remember doing it.

so let me get this right. you ran or the snake did .

Bill 1

Bill Pham wrote in post #5994656
so let me get this right. you ran or the snake did .

Bill 1

Well neither, seems neither one of us cared for the other much, so we mutually agreed to go our separate ways.

Okay so for those curious, here a link to the shot in the nature forum of the snake from today, not the snake I saw, but definitely the same markings, color, species.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=543550

read the comments on the link that you gave for the snake pic...

doesn't matter whether its poisnous or not...but it has all the qualities of giving a heart attack...atleast to me...

for the pics above kenny...I liked the last image...was this some kind of bridge??

Avi

Avin wrote in post #5998203
read the comments on the link that you gave for the snake pic...

doesn't matter whether its poisnous or not...but it has all the qualities of giving a heart attack...atleast to me...

for the pics above kenny...I liked the last image...was this some kind of bridge??

Avi

Thanks Avi, glad you like it, I think its for erosion control, or maybe a misplaced art installation. It appears to be mostly old car/truck frames that are embedded in the ground and tethered together and held in place with wire and cables.