Damn you take good photos. Thank you.

Very nice.

Great pictures !

What species of snake is that ?

Great Pics. Is that a Mamba, if so what kind?
Dr B

Saeed what kind of lens are you using, and filters?

Really nice photography.

Hi Saeed,
What kind of camera are you using. Is it a 35 mm? Your pictures are very clear and the lighting is well captured. Thanks for posting them.
Take care,
Dave

Gentlemen,

These pictures were taken by a number of people, using a variety of digital cameras.

The snakes were taken with a Canon Ixus500, a small 7 megapixel camera.

The black snake I took in a hurry. We were trying to get close to a herd of buffalo one afternoon - those who have seen our hunting video of this year would remember this snake.

As we got into a dry river bed, we saw this snake. The river bed was no more than about 10 feet wide at the top. Roy tried to keep it away from him with the shooting sticks.

I have no idea what it is, but we like to tell people it is a baby black mamba.

We have not used any filters on any of the cameras, except may be the Nikon D2X, which has a sky light filter to protect the lense.

Some of these photos were cleaned up with Photoshop.

Those are some excellent photos. Reminds me to make sure I take more non-game photos next time!

Saeed;

You have a talent with the camera.

Can I ask you this:

In the course of your safaris, how often have you run across poisonous snakes?

Did you ever have a too close for comfort encounter with one?

It varies from year to year. Last year when we hunted In Mahenge North, in Tanzania, we saw snakes very regularly.

Some we know to be poisonous, and others we assume to be, as our knowledge of them is not great.

Snakes such as puff adders and black mambas are seen almost on every hunt.

This makes us wonder how close we get to some without actually know it.

This year our PH, Roy Vincent, almost stepped on a large puff adder sunning itself on the road. He was just a step away from it.

One year in Zimbabwe, as we were following buffalos, a puff adder passed between me and him as he walked in front of me.

One time we were stalking a herd of waterbuck. We were crawling on our hands and knees, and stopped on some rocks. I was right behind Roy. Close enough to rest my rifle on his shoulders. When a puff adder again passed right between us!

On another occasion we were standing behind a tree watching some elephants less than 100 yards away. Roy made sign with his hands for me to look at a crack in the bark of the tree we were hiding behind.

When I looked, I saw a green snake sticking his tung out at me less than 2 feet away!