Well, not quite, but barely! See the pile of black timber rattlesnakes? That’s what I saw too.
What I didn’t see was the big yellow-phase timber right where I just about put my hand! Yikes. I saw him just before it was too late.
Yes, that would have hurt.
And, here’s a closer shot of the black timbers, minus 2 that disappeared before I could get a shot.
Tags: pennsylvania, snake den, timber rattlesnakes
Hi Brian! Just wanted to say that a friend sent me an imagur link to all your pretty little Atroxies. SO nice to find someone else who loves rattlesnakes. I always say that photographing rattlesnakes is like having the ugliest grandchild in the world — I take hundreds of photos and I think they’re adorable, and I want to show them to everyone — but no one else really wants to look at them! 😉
Hey thanks for looking! Do you post your photos anywhere? I’d love to see them.
Lat week, I’d have said no, because I’m not into blogging or social networking, but as of last week, I’ve started putting a few here:
http://www.viewbug.com/member/Saor32
Only a couple of rattleys up so far (I’m trying to fool them into thinking I’m a well-balanced photographer!) but I’ll put a few more up nest week.
Thanks for the link. I really like the lighting in the rattlesnake shots, partly in and out of light. Whereabouts are these taken?
They were all taken on dens near Vantage, WA. Now that I’m doing a lot of rescue work, I occasionally photograph a snake we’re rescuing, but most of those shots aren’t worth much – stressed out snakes behaving like stressed out snakes, ya know? Thanks for the kind words about my photos!
WS