Clint . . .
I'll always keep shooting snakes in my hand. Sometimes because it's the quickest way to get a photorepresentation of a particular snake and mostly because I want to show a size and color relativity to my hand.
If I've achieved any measure of success in photography of late, it's all due to Shawn Lockhart. A little over a year ago, he gave some modest and detailed criticism of my pictures. I cannot say how valuable it was and if he and I converse for another 50 years, I believe I'll probably thank him everytime. I'll never be able to take the shots Rich does, but thanks to digital photography people can now identify one of my leucistic Texas rats is actually not a piece of cotton rope they thought I was photographing in the past.