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Smooth Snake-Coronella austriaca

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Posted by Jeroen Stel on April 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Smooth Snake-Coronella austriaca
Went out today to look for Adders before a business meeting and unfortunately i did not find any. My day was allmost spoiled untill i saw this very very scarse fellow sliding by... :wink: :biggrin:

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

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Posted by Craig Jones on April 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Just when you think the day is through, up pop's your subject-something i'm learning alot about from photographing wildlife jeroen :biggrin: :biggrin: this is a lovely image and the BG/colours are great Well Done :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Rene de Heer on April 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM
I like i as well Jeroen ....no an easy specie for sure!
Rene de Heer
Posted by jack chapman on April 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM
lovely image, i haven't seen many shots of these before
Posted by David Sewell on April 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM
I was only thinking on my way home today that I had never seen one of these posted on this web site. My experience is that you find them and they are off, they are much harder to photograph than the other two snakes that occur in the UK for sure. congratulations on a great capture.

David
Posted by PhilH on April 24, 2009 at 3:16 AM
Certainly a good find of a scarce snake.... for me I would have prefered a bit more DoF just to bring the bit behind the head into focus....

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Posted by Dawn Monrose on April 24, 2009 at 5:48 AM
Lovely shot, beautiful colours and composition.
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on April 24, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Nice shot Jeroen, a species I've never photographed or even seen (not surprising, as they are so rare in the UK you need licence to photograph them!)

Greg
Posted by Matt Cole on April 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM
very nice Jeroen, a great species to find and nice that it paused for you to get a photograph. :smile:

Matt