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Mingo: Opal Stripe, Outside!!

My goal: get a nice photo with Mingo next to a pretty flower, with her head in focus. Mingo's goal: stay coiled as tightly as possible, preferrably in a knot, around my fingers while reacting to the touch of a flower on her skin as if I was trying to dip her in molten lava...
 

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Mingo is a 2009 Serpenco opal stripe. I feel very lucky to have her- Rich only had one!!! She is very sweet, and a good feeder.
 

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So pretty in red!!! Just imagine if she would have been cooperative...look at the little water droplet on her head!
 

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It's 90F outside, too hot for baby snakes. Better luck next time!

Thanks for looking!
 

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You always take such beautiful pictures, even with uncooperative snakes!
Mingo is beautiful as well =)

Ali
 
Thank you! That's the best I could do, out of about 50 pics. More than half had her head chopped off...I never actually got to focus on her even once- I just had to push the button and hope for the best.
 
wow you are patient to take 50 shots! What kind of camera do you use?
I get impatient after about 5 fails.. haha.. =) But I don't have any neat flowers and stuff to work with either. Is that all in your backyard?
 
I have a point and shoot Casio Exilim. I love it. I generally shoot snakes on a macro setting with rapid exposures so I can shoot three in a row by holding the button down. This lets me capture tongue flicks more easily! It's a 10mp camera. There's definitely a difference in quality, though, between my pictures and say Katie's or Robbie's or Elle's. It's just a point and shoot, after all.
 
Ooh she's so pretty!!! :D

I've been meaning to ask you which camera you use, Emma and Lenny need a new one, so thank you for posting that info :)
 
It's my third Exilim (I keep upgrading every couple years, although there really is no need to!) Elle shot with one for quite a while.
 
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