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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Everglades north of Alligator Alley

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Very cool...love the body positioning and the multicolored scales....beautiful.
Eric

Mar 19, 2017 at 02:11 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Colors do not look right....nuclear blue/green?

Mar 19, 2017 at 02:34 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Cottonmouth in 1986

did you lose the red channel?

Mar 19, 2017 at 02:44 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Thank you

Mar 19, 2017 at 03:19 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Marvelous compostion. I agree with the others that he color appears to be incorrect yet I love the image

Morris

Mar 19, 2017 at 03:34 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Cottonmouth in 1986

I expect the colors are incorrect from opening up the shadows so far but you are a brave one to get this shot! Intimidating to say the least

Karl

Mar 19, 2017 at 03:36 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Very nice despite the colors ~ Ron

Mar 19, 2017 at 07:01 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Cottonmouth in 1986

This is a wall hanger!
Douglas

Mar 20, 2017 at 07:29 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Great composition...that was with the 800mm lens, right?

Mar 22, 2017 at 10:17 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Colors may not be spot on, but that is one scary shot !

Birdie

Mar 22, 2017 at 12:19 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Thank you folks. I will have to tweak those colors.

Ran into this guy while looking for him. This is the biggest living Cottonmouth I have encountered to date. I found it about 5 miles north of Alligator Alley.

Temperature was just right to spot one sunning itself. So I was wading around the tree islands looking for one. And there he was. They get a bad rap. They are not aggressive, but terribly defensive.

It went left to get around me to the water. I very slowly went right to block its retreat. It stopped and went right to get around me to the water. And then I very slowly went left to again stop its retreat. If I had hurried it would have gone into a defensive mode, just like the second image I will post here. Finally it stopped and just stared at me. I was ready with a monopod, SLR (F3) and a 300 f4 manual focus Nikkor, and Kodachrome. Exposure was 1/60 at f16.

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Stunner!!!!

Mar 25, 2017 at 07:33 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Cottonmouth in 1986

Great shot. Between you and Erics leopard I probably will have a restless night tonight.

Mar 25, 2017 at 08:33 PM


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