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04-24-11, 05:51 PM
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New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Hi everyone. This is my first post on this forum. I'm from SE London / NE Kent in the UK. I have a passion for wildlife photography especially reptiles and put many of my shots on my photography website.
I visited both my favourite sites Friday looking for snakes. The first site was quite disappointing with only a couple of Slow Worms and a few Viviparous Lizards spotted. I didn't expect there to be many Adders about once it had warmed up because of the high temperatures we've had here lately so I got there quite early but still failed to find any.
The second site was a different story. I found 2 adult female Adders, 1 adult male Adder and 3 juvenile Adders. The male was showing his 'mating colours' and is was a beautiful silver-grey with dark black markings. I've been trying to photograph one like this for the past two years so I was well pleased to get a couple of good shots.
It was also an absolutely amazing day for Slow Worms at this site. I spotted an incredible 49 Slow Worms under about a dozen artificial refugia. (tins & felt). There were a few very large males with very clear blue spotted markings indicating a fair old age. With Slow Worms capable of living to over 50 years of age I was wondering how old some of these large spotted males must have been? It makes me want to treat them with even more respect having lived for that long.
Anyway, here are a few of the Adder shots. As usual, larger versions and other images can be seen on my website here:
Jason Steel Wildlife Photography
Best regards,
Jason
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04-24-11, 06:02 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Brill photos mate! we appreciate them.
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04-24-11, 06:09 PM
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Thanks infernalis. I appreciate your comments.
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Jason
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04-24-11, 06:14 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Cheers.
You may call me Wayne.
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04-24-11, 06:18 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Brilliant pics, we get LOADS of slowworms in our garden each year ( and in our kitchen thanks to our two feline hunters - its 1am here and just had to rescue a baby bird from one of them!) have never managed ti find any wild adders tho, even near the cornish and devon coasts where they are meant to be prolific.
Welcome to the site by the way! 
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04-24-11, 06:22 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Folks, please do yourself the favour of looking at this blokes web site, amazing brilliant photography, journalist quality!! so many animals, insects and herps.. go have a look.
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04-24-11, 06:26 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Thanks guys for your replies. Rob I have two cats too. One of them is a killing machine and will kill anything it can catch. Although it is slowing down now that it's 12 years old. Thankfully we don't get any reptiles in my garden for the cat to prey on.
Wayne - Thank you so much for checking out my site and for encouraging others to do the same. I really appreciate it.
Best regards,
Jason
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04-24-11, 06:43 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Mind if I spread the word??
I do this same function at another forum, and frequent several others, everyone like great photos.
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04-24-11, 06:45 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
That would be great Wayne. Thanks. I love seeing people from different countries checking out my site.
Best regards,
Jason
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04-24-11, 06:50 PM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
OK, I have another forum tab open right now, I'll drop your link.
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04-25-11, 12:55 AM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Amazing stuff, great pictures even read the captions and learned a few things.
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04-25-11, 02:18 AM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
Thanks Wayne. I'll put a link to this forum on my site too.
And thanks for checking out my website JR, not many people take the time to read what I've written on there so I appreciate you giving my site your time.
Best regards,
Jason
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04-25-11, 02:42 AM
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You can call me JR
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
It was an A+ site man no problem
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04-25-11, 03:51 AM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
hey welcome to the forum! fyi! THOSE PHOTOS ARE AMAZING 
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04-25-11, 04:27 AM
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Re: New member from the UK with Adder photos.
hello and welcome
your pictures are very proffesional mate
the way you captured the intensity of the eyes in picture 4 and the last picture are beautifull
look forward to seeing more of your pictures as we head for what the uk calls warmer weather i wish you all the best in finding more of these wonderfull creatures and sharing them with us of course 
cheers shaun
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