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Hoppy

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9. Photographers will go to extremes to get that photo....

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 08:56 PM

Dec 2015

It was about 15 years ago and the article was in the N.J. papers.

N.J. has only a few Timber Rattlesnakes and they are endangered. Idiot was walking in the hills by the Delaware Water Gap and he encountered one. Problem was, the snake wasn't in the proper light to take a good photo.

So, our hero reached out to "adjust" the snake. He ended up in hospital and with a fine of $2,500. for tampering with an endangered species.

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Went in search of after-the-rain mushrooms today. [View all] NV Whino Dec 2015 OP

Thanks for the fascinating photos! These are great. CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2015 #1

Gorgeous, NV Whino, and captures perfectly the feel around here after a rain. Adsos Letter Dec 2015 #2

Yep, Las Posadas. NV Whino Dec 2015 #3

My dad was the Fire Captain at the CDF station and experimental forest there back in the 1970's-80's Adsos Letter Dec 2015 #4

Never encountered a rattlesnake there. NV Whino Dec 2015 #5

The rattlers were always small Adsos Letter Dec 2015 #6

I haven't been to the homestead site in many years. NV Whino Dec 2015 #7

It is a hike, and the road is full of switchbacks iirc. Adsos Letter Dec 2015 #8

Photographers will go to extremes to get that photo.... Hoppy Dec 2015 #9

Ha! NV Whino Dec 2015 #10

I really like that second image. Nice tones. alfredo Dec 2015 #11

It was one of those pleasant surprises NV Whino Dec 2015 #12

You take snapshots with a camera, photographs in the darkroom. (old saying) alfredo Dec 2015 #13