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Gaboon Viper
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: BRIAN MCKAY (BRIMAC)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-05-07 |
| Categories: Reptiles |
| Exposure: f/11, 1/125 seconds |
| Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-01-09 6:41 |
| Viewed: 37014 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Gaboon Viper (Bitis Gabonica) distribution area
is the tropical African rainforest,it is the largest
of the vipers,up to 1.2 meters, weighing around
7 to 10kg,With fangs of almost 5.1cm (2 inches)it has
the largest fangs of any snake in the world,this one
was PHOTOGRAPHED IN A ZOO REPTILE HOUSE,kneeling down to get an eye level veiw point and using a 100mm macro
lens plus a small amount of fill flash, The snake
suddenly opened its jaws and I took the picture not
knowing if the nose of the snake had gone out of frame,
when I recieved the slides I was pleased to see that
everything was in frame, but only just.The shot was
originally taken on slide film and scanned to Digital. |
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Excellent shot. Hard to achieve such result.
How could you safely get so closed? Is it in a zoo through a glass? Is it a wild one captured and hold. Is it a free one in nature?
Very interesting to look at the fangs. Note is very informative too.
TFS
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Je suis étonné de ne pas voir d'autres remarque à propos de cette photo.
Le cadrage est très bien et la photo est impressionnante.
Bravo. ;)
John