Pictures of herptiles in general (dial-up warning!)

[Jonas]

I thought it would be nice with a thread where you can show pics of all kinds of herps, pets or field-photos.

There is no proper category for it in the "general photography", and I think there might be more people than me who have a combined interest of both herps and photography. Do you think this thread is ok? If so, feel free to show your stuff.

I'll start off with some swedish animals:
A common european grass snake, or smooth snake (Natrix natrix)

European tree frog (Hyla arborea)

Common european adder/viper (Vipera berus)

A pic I took in Costa rica, gladiator frog (Hyla rosenbergi)

My madagascar tree boa (Sanzinia madagascariensis)

 

[AJA]

Hey Jonas

Nice photos. Are those all yours?

There is a forum for our non chameleon friends to post about.

Here it is.

https://www.chameleonforums.com/other-reptiles-pets/

 

[Jonas]

I took them all myself, so thanks.

I know there is a forum like that, but I honestly thought this is more a "general photography thing". A combination of the two would have been great.

 

[Chameleonboy]

Very nice photos. Its alwase nice to see other peoples photos.

-Clemonde

 

[Jonas]

Thanks, feel free to show off your own animals/pictures.

 

[eisentrauti]

Great pictures Jonas ! Always great to see some native animals ! What camera do you use ?

 

[Jonas]

Its different cameras I think, the grass snake was taken with an old pocket digital, completely useless in todays standards.
Then I think its canon 20D and 30D mostly. Dont know if the moled name is the same in the US, some models have their own names in the US.

 

[davider]

Great shots

 

[Jonas]

Adding some pictures if it is allright.


Here is one of my old calyptratus females, she was a trooper.

A Dendrobates leucomelas, at a friends house.

A eyelash viper (Bothrops schlegeli) in Costa rica.

A horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) in captivity.

A mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana) eating a lizard (Norops sp) in Costa rica.

I will STOP here for now, hope you enjoy and or get inspired.

 

[jojackson]

Very nice pics! who knew Viper Berus could be so attractive. I was just discussing them recently with a mate from Norway. Thanks for posting!

 

[Jonas]

They can be quite polymorphic, males can usually get a nice blue and bright color in the spring and there are quite a lot of melanistic populations up north. All black berus is nice. I just dont have any pictures of those

Vipers usually make great photo subjects as they tend to lie still. The grassnakes takes a smelly dump on your face while spinning their tail lika a hellicopter before they take off in a hurry...