Our Florida Kingsnake Belle shed recently, and I tried a different camera technique to try and capture her colors. I put her on a glass coffee table and set my digital camera on (don't tell Belle) 'cuisine.' I guess it focuses on the foreground only, uses the flash but retains bright colors. The room was lit, so the background dropping to almost black was a pleasant surprise.
Kind of a cool nature moment caught with a camera, I thought. Along the river outside our Missoula hotel we came across this snake (I'm told it's a Wandering Garter) with a fresh catch! This particular meal could not have been a particularly comfortable one, though. I'm thinking scales would dictate eating fish head first, but it's possible this is how he caught it, and he was just bringing it on land till it died and then he made the switch.
