Eye Pecker
The pictures of the Vine Snake were my fav from my Kudremukh Trip last week. Over all we saw about 13 new species of snakes (most of them dead, run over on the road). We saw this little fella crossing the road and managed to save it life from a passing truck.
The Green Vine Snake is sometimes called as the ‘Eye Pecker’ because people believe it pecks humans eyes. In this picture it was quite agitated and was trying bite us off. Another amazing thing about this snake is that it can extend half of its body into midair when crossing a branch. I managed to capture another great wallpaper photograph of it standing in the air. And guess who’s hand it was standing on when I took this picture ? 😉
WOW!
On a very serious note….
I don’t need to watch Animal Planet any more…. just have to keep a watch for new entries on your blog!!!
Fantastic!…. really like the green….
Good work!
Poisonous or otherwise, I have a morbid fear of snakes. The handler must be one brave person 🙂
So did I for a long time, but after spending enough time with snake folks, I can handle them pretty OK. Infact in this trip, got a learn a lot about snakes and how to handle them.
Wow.. amazing.. but I would never be able to hold or even touch the snake.. how do you guys manage?
Hi, If you do not mind, can you please LJ -cut this pic. People like me are bit uncomfortable with this pic staring at the face.
yikes snakes are creepy…ewwww. though the snap is awesome…:)) and kudus to noella for being brave enough to hold a snake…
Those pics look awesome… btw how easy is it to tell if a snake is poisonous. They are creepy creatures but look beautiful at a safe distance 😛
awesome series. do post more scaly pictures if u got em… i find snakes very fascinating.. hypnotic in fact.. but i’d never dare noella’s act here! *shudder* ok.. my office-mates here want to chip in their praises too! ;D
Awesome!!!
If you’re in India, it’s easy, just remember only 6 known species are fatal to man and stay away from them: Cobra, King Cobra, Common Krait, Saw-scaled viper, Bamboo Pit-viper, Russell’s viper.
If it’s a new species then… god save you.
He forgot to mention there was a very experienced snake handler (Harsha the naturalist from his earlier posts )who was with us.And the fact is after seeing this guy you just had to touch him touching him.
wow, great pics..as usual..and really hats off to Noella!
Love th DoF and a near perfect rule of thirds composition.
BTW I have heard that these cute creatures make good pets….
And the fact is after seeing this guy you just had to touch him touching him.
I see its catching on, run for your lives its the Kallu virus. :p
p.s: Kallu, needless to say awesome snap.
its the ‘Kallu Effect’ all over again :))
Oh well, u could call it that too.
Do u have the “Kallu academy” too ?
I constantly wonder why you are not listed in the spaz rankings. To correct that you just debuted at number 4. COngrats
Kallu , please put down a disclaimer “Do not try this at home” , at the head of this post :-).
Conveying “Great shot” and “Is that girl crazy ?” from me and my friends at office. 🙂
Amazing picture. Its now my desktop wallpaper.
Brilliant.. Somehow reminds of the Eye of the tiger
The shots are bloody brilliant. The “wallpaper shot” is a total stunner. And Noel I would’ve frozen stiff pulling off something like that.
Lol you don’t know the half of it.So when Harsha ( the naturalist ) gently eased the snake on my hand it was all fine.
And the snake seemed pretty comfy..then suddenly it was lifting its head (top body ) up and looking at me straight in the eye.I think it must have been soon after this photo was taken.
I pretty much could not hold its stare and had to turn my head away just waiting to be bitten.
brilliant stuff!!
care to share the EXIF info 🙂
Also, could you share your post-processing workflow? Would be really helpful. 🙂
http://www.ashwink.net/photoblog (an amateur attempt at photography)
*joins the chorus*
praise++ 🙂
mommie you rockie ;/
enough people have said it alreayd. awesome! and noel is brave
bloody hell… the pics are brilliant
noel.. great job gurl..
You forgot the admins of
ilug-blr…linux-bangalore…blug…foss-bangalore.. whatever-its-called-today ;/Fascinating. Beautiful. Stunning. Brilliant. You rock, Kalyan.
hehe
Wow.
What happened next? Harsha took it off you?
all hail .. all hail . . .
by golly . . . the george of the jungle !!!! . . . Maybe you should think about replacing the ‘secuprise’ front page bird pic with this stunner . . . this guy’s got one hell of a stare . . . 😉
*chuckle*
You can tell me that snake is not poisonous, Lord Shiva was standing next to you after hynotizing the thing and that you had 43anti-venom shots before doing that and still I would say..
ARE YOU NUTS!!!
So who was it that was taking a snap of you taking a snap? The snake in that shot looks… well, sorta surreal.
That was a naturalish friend named harsha
Here’s the exif
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File name : DSC_6846.jpg
File size : 6545586 bytes
File date : 2005:09:27 12:47:04
Camera make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model : NIKON D70
Date/Time : 2005:09:25 14:01:14
Resolution : 3008 x 2000
Flash used : No
Focal length : 105.0mm
Exposure time: 0.0008 s (1/1250)
Aperture : f/2.8
Exposure bias: -1.00
Light Source : Shade
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto)
Jpeg process : Baseline
I usually open the .nef in Nikon capture, and 1st thing I do is adjust the white balace.. a.k.a temperature. Then I sharpen the pic as Nikon Capture sharpen is the best I’ve seen so far. Then I do bit of playing with level and contrast and save it as jpg. I sometimes Open it in photoshop when there are too many shadows etc.
I use gimp to resize them to the web 🙂
heh yeah.. was pretty relaxed for most part of it.
Awesome photo!!
Holy Cow!
That’s an astounding capture! Kudos!
Kalyan, Awesome…good to see you back…
105mm Nikkor Micro? have heard that lens is the greatest for Macro photography.
I am on the hunt for a good RAW processing tool. Photoshop CS doesn’t support the RAW output from my camera. Neither does Gimp for Mac. 🙁
The pros out there suggest C1 or Bibble. /me thinking of switching to CS2, it does support the 350D RAW format.
thanks for sharing the info. 🙂
n000bie learning. 😀
Wow, that’s just a stunning couple of photos.
Great photos, after a long time !
I have heard my grandmom also say the same abt these snakes, aparently they peck at your eyes.
Fabulous as always. Both images are truly art, regardless of content.
Sorry, that was me.
kankothi pamboo.. beautifully captured.. these snakes can get fidgety and bite though the bite is not harmful..
glad u both are having a good time..
They do have rear fangs and their poison it seems is same as that of a cobra, but yeah its very light and the worest you have (if it bites and if its rear fangs get into your skin ) is a mild headache.
Wow! Thanks for the wallpaper size image!
Dead!
Now, thats sad!