LOL Once again, fantastic pics! I can't imagine being so close to such stunning animals like that in the wild,. thanks once again for sharing. Is that you picking one up?

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"If you know everything you may as well blow your brains out because the reason for existence is to learn more everyday." - Mark O'Shea, 2004

No, that is 2001 President of KHS, Mark Ellis. I dont have any pics of me holding them. Whenever I give my camera to someone else, it seems they have no idea how to get everything in the viewfinder. Heres one exception of me holding a catfish I caught a few years ago. That was some weekend. We were camping in tents at 35 degrees F.

LOL Typical! Great pics anyway. Maybe one day we can see you with some of the stunners you find.

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Just stunning! (I love the title too!!)
When I was 11 years old, I saw a Western Diamondback rattler in that coiled/ready to strike pose once (VERY close-up!!) while I was hiking in Northern California. I was just frozen in fascination for a while, then I carefully, slowly backed away and then ran for my life. I only noticed later how scared I was and how dangerously close it had been!

PS -- cool pic with the catfish: nice to put yet another face and name together!

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Andrea

I swear that pic wasn't there the first time I opened the thread!! Nice to put a face to the name finally! - and someone managed to get everything in the photo

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"If you know everything you may as well blow your brains out because the reason for existence is to learn more everyday." - Mark O'Shea, 2004

I edited the post. Heres another pic of me from a camping trip in 2002. A small experimental aircraft crashed at the lake. Once all the people left, we went in for some photos.



This is my friend James.