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I recently camped out at Werrikimbe NP and went for a 55km mountain bike ride on Dec 30th, and around the northern limit of the ride around the location of Kookaburra came across this python, which was a good 1.7m long and quite a willing subject.





I had to be quick with the shutter for this!




Both photos using the Nikon 105 and built in flash on the D70. Processing was a size reduction, slight D-lighting and sharpening, plus a darkening of the road which was a bit bright under flash.

I also saw a lyrebird and a quoll on the ride, plus a few fireflies in the evening. There are a LOT of march flies around there in summer, every time I stopped it was a constant battle to stop them biting.

Gordon

its a nice bright colour, maybe recently shed its skin ?

Yes Shane, I suspect it had. It was quite nice to touch, but it took off in a hurry when I did! I think its had a tail injury at some stage.

Gordon

nice work gordon,

as for me i don't like snakes to much and would have taken off like rocket if i saw that, or if i 600mm with 2x tc and a d2x in high speed crop mode, then i might take a couple of snaps.

Excellent Gordon Like you I have found the old python to be very cooperative for photos, they almost seem to pose.

Nice shots Gordon, the colours show up very well.

Bob.

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Nice shots Gordon - pythons are truely beautiful snakes
Well done

Mmmmmmm...snakes......love 'em.

Great shots Gordon. Good to make use of a willing subject too. I take it the lyrebird and quoll weren't anywhere near as co-operative. They would have made for some interesting shots seeing they are so rare and hard to find.

Manta wrote:Mmmmmmm...snakes......love 'em.

Great shots Gordon. Good to make use of a willing subject too. I take it the lyrebird and quoll weren't anywhere near as co-operative. They would have made for some interesting shots seeing they are so rare and hard to find.

Thanks Simon, yea the quoll ran across the track about 30 m in front of me and had vanished in the undergrowth by the time I got to where it had been. The Lyrebird took off when I was a lot closer ( as did another one 2 days later west of Woolgoolga)... but I have managed photos of them before with a telephoto. I'm not entirely happy with them, but ok I guess for a difficult subject.

Gordon

Nice shots here Gordon, yep, Woolgoolga is the bird capital of Oz no doubt about it, millions of the critters wake me up every morning, but I've yet to see a lyrebird.

You need to come down to the next mini meet we have at Coffs (not sure when)

Max