• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Iorek Byrnison

Jessicat

Jessicat

All Pied Everything
My Granite Iorek Byrnison shed today and I snapped some photos of him before giving him his mouse. I got some pretty pictures, so I decided to share them with everybody!

I got this guy from Katie (ArpegioAngel) as an adult, so I don't have any baby pictures to compare with or do a progression thread.

In his tub
P1017123.jpg


P1017118.jpg


P1017125.jpg


Next, outdoors, against the mossy background.
P1017137.jpg


P1017138.jpg


P1017141.jpg


This guy has a lot of melanin, but I love that his neck/ sides are very diffused and he even has a few spots that look pretty white to me.
P1017146.jpg


Also, I absolutely adore his white tipped nose!
P1017150.jpg
 
Next I had some fun taking shots of him playing around in one of the trees in the court yard. Some of them aren't the best shots, but I had fun taking them!

I think this one shows his sides pretty well
P1017154.jpg


Even though this one is a little over exposed.. I blame the patchy sunshine filtering through the leaves, I think it shows his beauty.
P1017160.jpg


Some better exposed shots
P1017171.jpg


P1017178.jpg


P1017181.jpg


I had to be sneaky and get shots through the branches.. otherwise Iorek caught on pretty fast and changed his direction!
P1017199.jpg


I did manage to get some nice head shots though
P1017189.jpg


P1017193.jpg


This one's just too cute not to share
P1017174.jpg


That's it for this photo shoot. Hope you enjoyed the shots of Iorek! Thanks Katie, I couldn't be happier with this dude!
 
Very nice! It's cool to see how they look as adults, since my granite (Eddie) is only about a year old... I just updated his progression thread a minute ago, and you can see he's MUCH lighter than this guy. They're both pretty darned handsome, in my opinion. ;)
 
P.S. Those outdoor shots are really good... now that the weather's clearing up, I'll have to do some outdoor photos of my collection. They always look so much better in natural light, huh?
 
Beautiful snake and great photos! You have a really great photo tree and I expect to see many more snakes in it.
 
Lolo said:
Very nice! It's cool to see how they look as adults, since my granite (Eddie) is only about a year old... I just updated his progression thread a minute ago, and you can see he's MUCH lighter than this guy. They're both pretty darned handsome, in my opinion. ;)
Click to expand...

I was just looking at your guy and I actually think he looks like a Ghost Blood. It's funny that you saw pictures of my guy and commented, because I was thinking about the comparison between them!

Perhaps you just have a really light Granite, but to me it looks like Hypo is in Eddie's mix. One way to tell is to look at his sheds. Are they very dark or lighter? Hypos don't have as much melanin on their sheds and they look much clearer than a non-Hypo snakes.

I suppose as they say though, it's best to go with what the snake was sold as until breeding trials show otherwise.

Also, thanks for the compliments! It really is true that natural lighting can TOTALLY make all the difference.

atmox said:
Beautiful snake! Did you get that name from the golden compass?
Click to expand...

Sure did, Iorek is named for the King of the Panserbjørn. ;)

Thanks for the compliments everyone!
 
Susan said:
Beautiful snake and great photos! You have a really great photo tree and I expect to see many more snakes in it.
Click to expand...

Awww Susan, what a great compliment, especially coming from the master of "magical tree snake photos".

My mantra while shooting snakes in trees is actually what would Susan do?

I just love the apartments I'm in now, because they really have some great landscaping around here! We have our own little courtyard paradises surrounding the complex.

Your wish shall be granted!
 
Nice pics! How's he doing? Settled down? MAN he bit me when I was picking him up at Katie's!! Just a hungry bite.
 
Nanci said:
Nice pics! How's he doing? Settled down? MAN he bit me when I was picking him up at Katie's!! Just a hungry bite.
Click to expand...

He's finally getting comfortable enough to come out and explore his viv a little. I was actually about to feed him after witnessing him cruzing around his viv when I saw that he'd shed. I made him wait a little longer than planned in order to do this photo shoot. When I finally went to get him out of his tub for the second time to put him in his feeding bin he gave me a bit of a fright! He didn't strike, but for a second there I thought he was going to. That's the most of a "fright" I've ever gotten from an adult corn. Thankfully everything after that went just fine and after his mouse he calmed down.

For the most part though he's very good. Whenever I unearth him from his favorite hide for a handling session he is more than willing to be a calm participant.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top