We are finally finishing the sorting thru hundreds of photos some of you submitted for inclusion in our revised rattlesnake guide (which is going to also include the Copperheads, Coral snakes and Cottonmouths). Right now we desperately still need good, high res., clear, non-photoshopped (nothing...do nothing to the photo) images of Osage Copperheads, Broad Banded copperheads, Texas Coral Snakes and Eastern Coral Snakes.
Remember, those who get pics published receive a free copy of the updated and expanded guide. Pics should be at LEAST 6MB when you send them. DO NOT do anything to the pic. Do NOT resize it, do not sharpen it, do not adjust color or brightness. DO NOTHING!!!!! Some of you did not follow this rule and we had to toss your beautiful pics because we could not re-size them and retain the correct pixelation. I repeat...do not photoshop your pics...please...send us the original image.
All images need to be between 6 and 9 MB. My e-mail will not receive larger images...and only one image per e-mail...please. Also, please put your name on the pic, along with what the snake is...ie. CopBB for Broad-banded copperhead. We do not need to know localities, but the state name would be nice. Please label the pics as follows:
CoralTX-TX-JoeBlow.jpg
or
CopBB-TX-BrianHubbs.jpg
or
CopO-KS-ChadWhitney.jpg
Thank you. Good luck...and I await the new onslaught...
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REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Can I send you a Northern Copperhead pic just in case you end up needing another?
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
I'll send you some Osage from both Kansas and Missouri.
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Those aren't rattlesnakes.Brian Hubbs wrote:our revised rattlesnake guide (which is going to also include the Copperheads, Coral snakes and Cottonmouths)
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sent you 6 pics, I think...
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Did you actually send 6 different E Mails per instruction?!KUJordan wrote:sent you 6 pics, I think...
I've got several of what I think are (possible) suitable pics of E Corals. Maybe I'll try to pick a fav when I'm next rummaging through that area of my computer...
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Mike: Yes
Justin: Great...
Jordan: Got 'em...
Tim: We really need E corals bad...
Monk: New book name might be "A Guide to the Rattlesnakes and other Venomous Serpents of the U.S." or something like that...The book will also be much larger and cost a little less...5 cents less...$19.95.
The first edition will no longer be printed, so if you don't have it yet I'd get one quick. They are almost gone...we only printed 5,000.
www.mountainkingsnake.com
Justin: Great...
Jordan: Got 'em...
Tim: We really need E corals bad...
Monk: New book name might be "A Guide to the Rattlesnakes and other Venomous Serpents of the U.S." or something like that...The book will also be much larger and cost a little less...5 cents less...$19.95.
The first edition will no longer be printed, so if you don't have it yet I'd get one quick. They are almost gone...we only printed 5,000.
www.mountainkingsnake.com
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
You need to redo the maps.
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
We will redo parts of 3 of them...atrox, lep lep and lep klaub, so if you have suggestions for others....send them to me, please...
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
My biggest issues were with the two lep maps (which are just wrong), but what's the deal with the molossus map? What I also found confusing is that for some species/subspecies you tried to show the range into mexico, but for others its cut off considerably (like scutulatus, pricei, etc.) or partially (like atrox, and klaubs). Just seems like they should be consistent.
-JJ
-JJ
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We tried to show enough Mexican range as the map would allow, or the subspecies allowed, but the book's focus is the U.S. If you think our maps are off...please send me some info or your own idea of how it should be changed. We are very open to suggestions. We consulted 3 books and the range maps reflect what we felt was most accurate according to the other authors, but no one is perfect.
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Your Timber Rattlesnake guide was way off, because my neighbors dog died when it was bitten by one at Lake Shasta, and he said it was a Timber.Brian Hubbs wrote:We tried to show enough Mexican range as the map would allow, or the subspecies allowed, but the book's focus is the U.S. If you think our maps are off...please send me some info or your own idea of how it should be changed. We are very open to suggestions. We consulted 3 books and the range maps reflect what we felt was most accurate according to the other authors, but no one is perfect.
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
LOL! He should have read the book...
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
my uncle swears he found a timber rattler in the sandias near albuquerque...
Josh
Josh
- Brian Hubbs
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That's nice, Josh...that's just very nice...
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Hell, my grandfather will swear to his dying day he found cottonmouths in Alamagordo NM. He gives me beer and ammo so I quit arguing with him about it.
yes, you can buy my silence with alcohol and crates of ammo (30-30, .22, 30-06, .357 and 45-70 only).
yes, you can buy my silence with alcohol and crates of ammo (30-30, .22, 30-06, .357 and 45-70 only).
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Paul White wrote:He gives me beer and ammo so I quit arguing with him about it.
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Yeah, I agree with Crotalus, your molossus map is definitely off. Nigrescens goes up to the Sierra Del Nidos, west to Maguarichic, Yecora.
Concolor map is way off too (Brendan didn't catch this?) Most of (Lower)Kane County should be abyssus.
CC
Concolor map is way off too (Brendan didn't catch this?) Most of (Lower)Kane County should be abyssus.
CC
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Correcamino wrote:Yeah, I agree with Crotalus, your molossus map is definitely off. Nigrescens goes up to the Sierra Del Nidos, west to Maguarichic, Yecora.
Concolor map is way off too (Brendan didn't catch this?) Most of (Lower)Kane County should be abyssus.
CC
Get him, make him write a decent book!
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Like I said...if you guys have suggestions, please e-mail them to us. We would like to make the new version as perfect as possible.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
How about this Texas Coralsnake...
Red against.....hey? WTF?
Red against.....hey? WTF?
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
I always heard red against yellow...so that one still fits. Find an axanthic then that'll mess it up.
what i remember from my early childhood (before we moved up north where it didn't matter):
"red touch yellow, kill a fellow
red touch black venom lack"
what i remember from my early childhood (before we moved up north where it didn't matter):
"red touch yellow, kill a fellow
red touch black venom lack"
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Re: REVISED VENOMOUS GUIDE PHOTOS NEEDED...COPPERS & CORALS
Did you find that...Chris?
You know how many good TX coral pics we have? ONE...Help!
You know how many good TX coral pics we have? ONE...Help!