Rattlesnake

[jaimej26]

Zenfolio | Wildlife Photography

This was kind of neat, two days ago we were photographing rattlesnakes. During that outing, we spotted a monster snake under a rock. He was huge, but we couldn’t get a good image of him.
I couldn’t forget that snake, so today we went back to the same place in search of more snakes. Surprisingly enough, as we approached the rock where the monster was two days ago – we noticed
Him out sunning himself. He was short tempered, but had recently dined on a black tailed prairie dog. If you are aware of the size of black tail prairie dogs, that gives some idea of scale to the
Diameter of the snake (much larger around than a pop can). He was over five feet in length. Not much for rattles, but often the older snakes have broken rattles from their tails. Really a nice
specimen – short tempered but moving slow! He eventually went back to the sanctuary of the rock.

F5.6
ISO 400
1/2000

Canon 1Dx / Canon 500mm f4 L / Kenko 36mm Extension Tube (allows 500mm to focus closer)/Gitzo 3530 LSV / Wimberley Head

[randimal]

Wow, beautiful shot.

[chuzmarobot]

Creepy. very sharp. nice DOF.

[f86sabjf]

very nice .

There have been some nice 4-6ft eastern diamondbacks showing up in my scrubjay preserve. I'm hoping to get a shot soon

[Ecooper]

Very nice! The extended tongue makes the photo!

EC
macrocritters

[mattb]

Great shot! Glad you have a good number of mm's mounted on your camera for that!