I've been in a rut the last couple of weeks, despite good opportunities to shoot - this weekend I made a fire-sale run to Louisville and Slade Kentucky to see the louisville zoo and the Kentucky reptile zoo, but came back with only a mixed bag of shots. Some of these are typically me, some of these are out of my usual style. In any case, I hope you enjoy them!

A garter snake found in the south suburbs on thursday - I was itching to get out of town. Seemed like a nice day to walk prarie edges in search of basking snakes, I was right.


louisville zoo






Golden toad. These little guys are extinct, which is a shame.


feeding the aldabra tortoises, armed with the 28mm lens!




Kentucky reptile zoo - worth the trip, and made the trip worthwhile. Pretty close to 500 miles each way, and almost 6 tanks of gas. In two days.

I'm not really up on my african vipers, but I think this is atheris chlorechis.



and this, of course, is cerastes cerastes.