Stunning snake portraits

In 2011, photographer Mark Laita created Sea, a book of stunning portraits of strange ocean creatures. Now comes Serpentine, in which Laita points his lens at a stunning series of snakes. Above, Rowley’s Palm Pit Viper (Bothriechis rowleyi).

Serpentine by Mark Laita (Amazon)

"Snakes in a Frame: Mark Laita’s Stunning Photographs of Slithering Beasts" (Smithsonian)

• [Geekized]

  Snakes are gross no matter how they’re photographed.

  • [DreamboatSkanky]

    All part of the majesty of creation.  I luzz ‘em!

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Snakes are great!

• [mtdna]

  Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?

  • [nuorder]

    Comments are getting so predictable…I just won a bet with my co-worker that someone would comment, “Snakes…Why’d it have to be snakes?” and yup, you proved me right! Thanks for the free pop! 

• [Daneel]

  He almost got himself killed making this, too.

  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/19/photographer-captures-black-mamba-biting-him-on-camera-but-doesnt-notice-til-next-day/

  • [SumAnon]

    It was just a love bite.

  • [Beanolini]

    The first sentence of that article reads:

    Laita is lucky to be alive as he was bitten by a black mamba, which is 100 percent fatal.

    This is possibly the most stupid thing I have ever read.

    • [Antinous / Moderator]

      This is possibly the most stupid thing I have ever read.

      Is that a dare?

      • [Beanolini]

        What have you got?

• [Lobster]

  Snake!  Snake!  Ooh, it’s a snake!

  • [nuorder]

    Yeah, your point?

    • [Antinous / Moderator]

      Mushroom! Mushroom!

      • [Felton / Moderator]

        Badger, badger, badger, badger…

• [10xor01]

  Anyone who survives a black mamba bite has my full attention.