Colorado Rattler
by Guy Runco
It's Spring, and snakes of all kinds are out and about in my neck of the woods. This rattlesnake had just won a small skirmish with a coyote and wasn't in the mood to be photographed, so I snapped just a few and then turned around to walk away and almost stepped on a bull snake (I'll post a shot of him later). I returned to the spot the next day and found four rattlers and the same bull snake, all within 5 feet of each other. Mating behavior?
Sony A200
Sony 75-300 @ 300mm
iso 400
1/320 sec
f5.6
Chatfield State Park, Colorado
Comments
8 commentsI quite like your composition here. To me the coils are visually interesting and there's little (or nothing) to distract my eye. The tongue is great - well timed on that. In a perfect world I think a little more depth of field might have strengthened this shot, but I realize that the trade-off in shutter speed (if you stopped down) may have made it impossible to capture the tongue the way you did.
Cheers...thanks for sharing this...
Brad