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Reverse Okeetee: Outdoor Photoshoot!

Michael823

Michael823

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Hey again,

Yesterday was a gorgeous sunny day, unlike today, so I took advantage of it by taking out my Reverse Okeetee. The sun was a little too bright, which washed out a lot of my photos, so I had to make a little perch for her where there was some shade.

As you might be able to tell, I made the perch coming off of the dog pen. Thought that this was kind of a funny photo of her scoping out my dog Ciana, while she patiently waited in the pen for me to photograph the snake.

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Hope you enjoy!
 
Lovely shots, she looks like she enjoys the wooden perch.
--I always see the side-shots of their head with them smiling, haha. It's a habit I can't shake.
 
Thank you very much! It does look like she's smiling. I see the same thing when I look at their side profiles as well. Hard to tell if she's happy, but she was certainly content being out there. I even set her on the lawn for a moment, and she seemed as calm as could be. She didn't even flail as I walked over her to pick her back up, so she must have had some understanding of being at peace out there.
 
I would certainly be nervous taking my corn outdoors, but I think that the natural lighting adds something fantastic to the photos :)
And you're very welcome.
 
Illidan said:
I would certainly be nervous taking my corn outdoors, but I think that the natural lighting adds something fantastic to the photos :)
And you're very welcome.
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That used to be my biggest fear too. I was nervous that they would either find an escape route, or that they might pick up some harmful outdoor parasites. I've found that neither of these are really big concerns anymore.

I won't take any of my little snakes outside, because they could probably find an escape route much easier than my larger snakes, but some of my snakes I have no concern with outside. I also make sure to handle them for a little while before I photograph, which seems to calm them down, as well as get them used to my hands constantly moving at them. And it also allows me to see what type of mood they're in.

Snakes like my Ghost Corn Snake, My Carpet Python, and my Woma Python are just so carefree that I could almost leave them un-attended without worry. Of course I would never actually do that, but they are so patient and confident with their interactions that they don't even bother looking to 'get away'.

On the other hand, snakes like my Miami Corn Snake seem to always want to find a place to go. She even seems to have a special knack for moving backwards and tying her tail around the thinnest branches, so she can plant herself pretty well, and make it a pain in my butt to get her down. If fact, the other day she decided to climb just about to the top of my mom's Quince Bush, which is about 12ft above the ground. She started climbing upwards, then wrapping her body so tight to the branches that I would have had to really tug on her to get her down, and I didn't want to hurt her. Luckily I was able to bend the branch that she was on, and she eventually came back to my clutches.
 
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