Linwood Ferguson
08-06-2013, 11:33 AM
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This guy was hidden in the weeds in Six Mile Cypress (Ft. Myers Florida). It had begun to pour rain and I was heading back to the car and saw him. I stopped long enough to get set up and wait until he moved into an opening. I'm not sure if I'm happy about the leaves in the view, but I wasn't going to get down there and rearrange.
I am pretty sure it's a juvenile cottonmouth, not a copperhead, based on the eye stripe and, well, that copperheads are rare this far south. Anyone know for sure? But I liked the clean, wet looking head with all those metallic colors, and how nice and sharp the lens left it.
D800, 400/F2.8 + 1.4TC, 1/40th (Tripod), F7.1, ISO 400.
The leaves were really bright, I took them down over a stop. Suggestions welcomed.
This guy was hidden in the weeds in Six Mile Cypress (Ft. Myers Florida). It had begun to pour rain and I was heading back to the car and saw him. I stopped long enough to get set up and wait until he moved into an opening. I'm not sure if I'm happy about the leaves in the view, but I wasn't going to get down there and rearrange.
I am pretty sure it's a juvenile cottonmouth, not a copperhead, based on the eye stripe and, well, that copperheads are rare this far south. Anyone know for sure? But I liked the clean, wet looking head with all those metallic colors, and how nice and sharp the lens left it.
D800, 400/F2.8 + 1.4TC, 1/40th (Tripod), F7.1, ISO 400.
The leaves were really bright, I took them down over a stop. Suggestions welcomed.