December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

Thanks and happy new year!

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RE: Photographing snakes

We came across a big African Python in an area called Dol Dol, it was massive (over 20ft) and guess who wanted to go and get it for a photo? Icon_cheesygrin

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I have taken lots (hundreds) of pics of Adders.
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Here's one of a Grass Snake.    

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Macro shot.    

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riana Wrote:
I have had this happen to me twice now, and considering I rarely see snakes at all, it is very frustrating!

I see the snake and before I've even had a chance to think about getting a camera out it's gone into the undergrowth never to be seen again. I would love to get a picture of one, but I guess I'll just have to keep trying until I get lucky or until I learn to be a bit quieter!

Has anyone any experience of photographing snakes?

It is worth bearing in mind that Adders are slaves too habit. If you scare one off, stand still for a few minutes and 9 times out of 10, they will come back to the same spot. This holds especially true in the spring, when they are still using the hibernacula as a night refuge. at this time of year they will not stray more than a few feet from the entrance and can be seen in groups of (mostly) males.

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