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Green Tree Python
Taken at the Akron Zoo - Akron, OH

Despite a similar photo like this winning 2nd place in the Akron Zoo's Shutterbug contest this year, I still felt it needed something more--more mood or depth I think, though there certainly wasn't anything wrong with the first one.

Getting these shots end up being easier that it might seem, when you think about low light and then adding macro lenses on top of that where if you breathe that the subject gets out of focus...But when the snake is on a branch on the other side of the glass at the perfect distance...well, one simply rests the lens on the glass as a stabilizer and voila!

I really do like this one better, the darker shadows to this gives it a sense of depth and mood that the other didn't, in my personal opinion. The other just seems flat compared to this, even if the other shows off more detail on the green tree python.

Here is the other one for comparison, from my Scraps:

Edit: Oh my goodness!! Thanks so much for the DD on this and thank you to everyone in advance for your of it! I am so very very honored by the DD and everyone's love for it!