Gorgeous Death Adders! Urururururur!

[olivehydra]

Originally Posted by moosenoose

Doll her up Sadge!

Sacrilege :!:
Plus I think that shade of lippy doesnt suit a redhead.

[Gerry]

very nice sdaji. theyre a couple of the nicer ones Ive seen mate. u have to be happy with them

[Sdaji]

Thanks everyone, knowing that you're all drooling over them too helps me to feel that little bit more conceited

Moose: hahaha! That's shocking, but I suppose you've depicted her living up to her name, even down to the inappropriate choice of lippy! (Or so we're told ) Funny stuff

Fish faces are pretty

It's difficult to catch their true colours, when I saw the ad's picture I liked them but was told they look even better in the flesh, which I found to be true. I'd never photographed Djarra adders until yesterday, sitting on the lids of their new tubs between opening the bags and popping them inside. Hopefully I'll get some time to play around with them and the camera, and get some nicer shots. I can probably manage a better background than semi transparent blue lids too! Adders are the best photography snakes I've played with, they're so cooperative and these two are at least as good as my Barklies

[zen]

Magnificent photos of beautiful specimens Sdaji.

That front-on headshot is awesome
Superlatives are inadequate to describe it and your photography in general.
If you ever get sick of science, wildlife photography beckons.

What species of "spine snake" is this?


P.S - I'd be getting a watermark on those PDQ if IwuzU !

P.P.S - Just wait a few minutes till I get a chance to download them :wink:

[Deb64]

WOW SD,
They are awesome. The pics are fantastic.
Geat addition to your collection :-)
BTW..I love the eyelashes Moose added....tarts her right up :-)

Cheers Deb

[Sdaji]

Originally Posted by zen

Magnificent photos of beautiful specimens Sdaji.

That front-on headshot is awesome
Superlatives are inadequate to describe it and your photography in general.
If you ever get sick of science, wildlife photography beckons.

What species of "spine snake" is this?

You're far too kind! (I'm almost wondering what you want from me! ) Thanks for your compliments!

Reptile taxonomy is a contravesial area, is seems that everyone who does the tiniest bit of work on a group wants to add their piece and put a new name on something (it's difficult for some people to do some work and say "oh, I found that I can leave things as they were"). In my opinion, all death adders are the same species, if you check most books you'll find that the Djarras are Acanthophis antarcticus and if you talk to some people you'll get all sorts of weird and wonderful stories. As long as we keep things locality pure, not taxa pure, this will never be an issue and a Djarra adder will be a Djarra adder.

[zen]

Ah! So its a regional variant of antarcticus.
Thanks for the wrap.
No wonder I couldn't find it in any reference books.

I'm almost wondering what you want from me!

I'll PM the details.

Feel free to watermark now :wink: (see P.S edit above)

[Rennie]

Beautiful adders, easily the best I've seen in my limited experience!

[Sdaji]

I didn't figure these were worth watermarking, I'd actually love someone to try to pass them off as their own on the internet, it would be so easy to show them up for it and although the snakes are nice, the photography isn't anything special, so it would be extra embarassing for them

Yes, as far as any books are concerned, Djarras are a regional variant of A.antarcticus, which I agree with, although I'd likely not argue if someone labelled them as a distinct subspecies. I consider my Barkly adders to be Acanthophis antarcticus hawkei although many would call them Acanthophis hawkei, while others still would simply call them Acanthophis antarcticus (antarcticus). There are some Barkly hybrids going around, being passed off as pure Barklies, which is sad. Some people say that Djarras are very similar to Barklies, some say that a Djarra is basically a red, yellow and black Barkly, while others laugh at that suggestion, saying that Djarras are more like a typical antarcticus, while the Barklies are quite distinct. I can say for sure that both the "Anthony's lagoon" type Barklies and the Djarra adders (whatever you want to ally them with!) are two of my favourite forms or one of my favourite species of snake

It's probably about time I took some more pictures of my Barklies. I took some just after I bought my first and second digital cameras and have left it at that. Here is my Barkly girl, I think this was the first picture I took of her, she was about a year old at the time (from rough memory).



(This picture is crap, feel free to steal it )

[craig.a.c]

They are stunning. Some of the best looking adders I have seen for a while.

[Rennie]

I love the background, I think she's turning me on :wink:
But no vens for me, I have to draw the line somewhere.

[yommy]

You must be happy Sdaji congratulations speccie looking snakes.
Djarras are defineatley one of the nicest in the adders family,
though i do believe barklies are up there too.

[Sdaji]

I sure am happy, after about four years of waiting and only having them for a day, I'm still buzzing

The Barklies are nice looking and quite distinctive, but I think the main appeal of the Barklies is that they're the largest, fastest and most powerful of the death adders. Going purely on colour and pattern, the Djarras wipe them out

[yommy]

I agree. A friend of mine has both and they are awesome, if the wife would let me the Djarras would be the first I'd get in a flash, unfortunately though she's a python only gal. I get my venomous fix by doing callout in my local town, got a nice kingy last night.

[herpnadel]

nice looking adders if you breed them put me down for 1 or 2