Crotalus atrox

Fantastic composition of this shot... Great details and sharpness... really good colors and the light is also really good...

All my best, Jill

This must be a cage kept rattler. Those rattles are amazingly long! You never see them that long in the wild. It is great the way they just blend together, but that also hurts such a detail shot as this. The eye barely peeks out of the rest of the scales and colors.

But a great snake photo none the less.

Mark, I live in south Texas and although we haven't found a rattler this big we have caught some that got VERY close. Every now and then you come across one of these big guys in the wild and man do they scare you :-)

J.C. Thank you for your comment on my snake photo. You have a great portfolio. I think you should make a book at www.blurb.com of all the photos you have at those serpentariums and have them forsale inside the buildings.....I'm sure some of the staff would buy them and maybe you could autograph them or something. It's just a thought. I love my Blurb book. Anyways, Congrats on a great photo!