Bird-eating Snake

Gallery: WildlifePosted January 31, 2010236 views5 comments

We encountered this beautiful Bird-eating snake in a coffee field as you can see. There were some workers cutting the hedges and they pointed it out to us. I like how its colors blend with the coffe beans. Only the yellow throat is standing out. The image was made on the premisses of CATIE, an institute for research and education in the field of agriculture and environmental conservation in Costa Rica.

D300, Sigma170-500@340mm, 1/60, F11, tripod, cropped to 70%.

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Comment posted by Sally King on January 31, 2010 at 11:07 AM

What a pretty snake and I really like how its colors are mimiced by the fruits. Excellent details best seen in the larger version.

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on January 31, 2010 at 12:50 PM

Hi Ellen, good to see another image of yours from Costa Rica! This is a beauty and the skin color indeed matches the coffe beans nicely. I also like all that curling of the snake. You managed to make a chaotic scene look very appealing by using the vegetation as a frame. well done.

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on January 31, 2010 at 6:30 PM

Hi Ellen,

Compositionally I think this image is very well executed. Detail is good, I like the colour scheme, and the framing vegetation works well for me. About the only very minor nit I can see (and this is really VERY minor!) is that it would be nice to have just a tiny more light in the region of the eye (and slightly below). But overall this image works well for me!

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

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Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on February 1, 2010 at 6:09 AM

Lovely image, Ellen! How beautifully it merges with the habitat!

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Comment posted by Richard Waas on February 1, 2010 at 8:04 AM

Lovely image..... The setting with the red coffee beans really adds to this image. Maybe brighting the eye and chin area a wee bit would draw me to the main focus of this image. Great job!!

Registered on January 11, 2010, 31 Posts, 90 Comments