Morelia tracyae, the Halmahera Island Scrub Python.
A meeting between a Banded Water Snake and a white rat.
Taken at Adelaide Zoo, South Australia, through glass. This python looked like his eye was watching my every move. This image featured in Top Shelf Wildlife and Nature Art in September 2009. Many thanks! And featured again in Zoophoria in September 2009. Thank you! And yet another feature, this time in South Australian Artists in September 2009. Thanks again!
Green Tree Snakes often show beautiful glimpses of Blue in their colours. Copyright © Bullock Photos – www.bullockphotos.com 4317 views
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Florida banded watersnake. / Nerodia fasciata pictiventris. / Kanapaha Botanical Gardens; / Gainesville, Florida. / 09 September 2006. / Nikon D70s. This is a non-venomous Florida banded watersnake. Bandeds are quite variable in appearance throughout the Floridian peninsula. This individual is one of the rarer of the three dominant variants. Typically, the bandeds are darker, with black, red and orange bands and base colors. The “Caramello” is more of a light orange base color, with traces of murky yellows and reds. It’s just a lovely variant, and one I’ve only seen a few times. Janson, / http://floridana.typepad.com/
Western Green Mamba – Colouration is usually lime green with yellow on the tail … scales create a fishnet effect. Length is 78 inches on average. Their bite can be rapidly fatal (≈30 minutes) if envenomation occurs. They are listed in the same family as coral snakes. Classification / Kingdom: Animalia / Phylum: Chordata / Class: Reptilia / Order: Squamata / Suborder: Serpentes / Family: Elapidae / Genus: Dendroaspis / Species: Dendroaspis viridis Camera Info: / Sony FD97 / Focal Length: 24mm / F-number: F/2.8 / ISO: 131 / Exposure: 1/30 sec. Location: Jacksonville, Florida (USA) Zoo Found in the RB PAX Mosaic. FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / Reptiles / Sony Shooters
Souther black racer. / Coluber constrictor priapus. / Mt. Dora, Florida. / 18 August 2006. / Nikon D70s. Of all the Floridian snakes, I believe the Southern black racer has adapted best to human development. They actually do quite well in neighborhoods and small downtowns. Perhaps it is a combination of their fast speeds and sharp visual acuity? Regardless of the reason, they are there in force (to the dismay of a few snowbirds who are shocked that there are reptiles in Florida). This racer was in family’s backyard in Mt. Dora, Florida. So much cuteness, so little time! Janson, / http://floridana.typepad.com
A very photogenic Murray Darling Carpet Python was very interested in my macro photopgraphy! Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey providing specialist ecological services across Australia.
Also known as Morelia bredli, the Centralian Carpet Python. / One of the beauties I used to sell at Coburg Aq. One of my first test shots with my new Sigma EF-530 DG ST flash, the prize from POTY2007. SOLD as a Mounted Print in January 2009
created with Airbrush in ps using mouse. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— All work (including images, and writings) copyright dimarie painter / / Click here for work details and credits if any apply… / Click on any category above for that genre… or / Click here to go back to my profile page ... thanx :) an adaption of my piece Star Slither / /
Oil Bites / It’s ironic, we take something that exists naturally in the earth and use it to poison the planet. Detail: /
Yes I do like it dark and spooky sometimes… though I can’t even come close to watching any horror movie, I’d get nightmares all week,... enough of this sort of stuff is happening in my head already… ! Model: fetish faery (DA)
Done in photoshop and GIMP
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2 sales / Here is Nature Girl a la naturale!! / another brown paper mixed media creation from the studio of Karin Taylor :)
The Bateleur Eagle The Bateleur occurs throughout the savanna and open woodland regions of Africa south of the Sahara. In South Africa, the species once graced the skies of the Transkei, the Eastern Cape, the Karoo and the south Western Cape but sightings in these areas are no longer common. The Bateleur eagle eats carrion, reptiles, and small mammals like rats, / hedgehogs, squirrels or young hares. When attacking snakes, the bird raises its crest and spreads its wings. This, together with long, scaly legs, ensures that, should the snake strike, it will hit either feather or scales, neither of which will pass venom into the bird’s blood stream. The voice of the Bateleur eagle is quite distinctive. The most frequent consists of short repeated barks ‘kau-kau-kau’, followed by one or two long shouts of ‘koaagh’. In the wild this call is made while perched. Its scream of anger is completely different. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In the lowveld wildlife reserves, where the Bateleur probably occurs at maximum density in an ideal habitat, it is quite numerous. Outside of protected areas, the Bateleur is vulnerable to poisoned bait. The birds have been eradicated from virtually all South African farmland due to indiscriminate attempts to control jackal.
A mixed media on canvas that unfolded over a period of 12 months and recently came together as this, rather unusual piece of work that incorporates a variety of mediums including collage, acrylic, gesso, sand, inks and guache… pretty much anything that I wanted. I guess the theme remained one of experimentation and my attitude stayed playful and open to where the painting wanted to lead me. Most of my work, particularly my abstracts, are intuitive, there is no prior thought process or decision on what I want to create and I let the work take me on a path rather than me moulding it from the early stages. Perhaps this is why this painting unfolded as a game, and on a slightly more deeper level, is about the games we play and the gambles we take in our lives. Please follow me ... oh, and one last point of interest. Some of you have already commented or favourited the previous versions of this painting, guess it goes to show how much our work can change in a short space of time. Pretty exciting to watch this journey as I enter my 3rd year of painting. Have a happy day and thanks for looking : ) LARGE SCALE VIEWING IS RECOMMENDED
Self Portrait © Jessica Walker 2009
Amazon Tree Boa
We found this beautiful creature in one of the remotest jungles in the world while on an expedition for the BBC. The ancient volcano, Mt Bosavi is home to some of the rarest and most amazing wildlife I’ve ever seen.
Another of my quick drawings from my journal that I scanned, cleaned up and then coloured in PS. This time i played around with halftones as the colouring for the pebbles/circles. I used both the bitmap way of half toning as well as a PS halftone filter. So because of the halftone’s… depending on the colour of the tee you choose, the design will look slightly different on each. For brilliant writing, some of it about shedding skin & re-generation, check out Bellmusker if you haven’t already.
Western green mamba (Dendroaspis viridis). West Africa. / Closely related to the Eastern green mamba and the Black mamba. Although it has a similar, dangerously neurotoxic venom as the black mamba, it is not as potent and injects smaller quantities. It is also not as nervous as its cousin. Found mainly in trees but does sometimes venture to the ground to bask or chase its prey.
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