Requesting Images of the Commonly CB in the Wild
Posted: November 16th, 2017, 6:06 pm
Hi Everyone,
Many very interesting herps have become so commonplace through captive breeding that photographic representation of them in their native habitat seems to be almost rare.
Every time I look at a captive herp I think of it in its original form, and perhaps it is an oddity of my own reckoning, I imagine all herp life in a time capsule before captive breeding or worldwide trade, sometimes even before we became modern humans.
They are all interesting - there are no boring herps.
Whether you as a herper and photographer keep, breed or not, even if you are a person who is not personally interested in herpetoculture - presenting these mainstreamed icons in a true light could impact others, including young people who have an interest in herpetology and a common part of that is keeping a reptile that is one of those iconic and readily available CB species, but all they can find to quench an interest deeper than the ordinary are photos of their animal in a tank on a care sheet. Photos of 'hobby animals' like Ball Pythons and Leopard Geckos in wild situ are comparatively scant..
Besides that, perhaps it is an opportunity for the well traveled photographers here, to dig up some photos that they have taken on trips and left out of their photographic reports because they thought they would be uninteresting compared to other finds.
Well, I think it might be interesting, fascinating even to see these species as they really are.
I thank you all for reading, and look forward to any photos posted.
Many very interesting herps have become so commonplace through captive breeding that photographic representation of them in their native habitat seems to be almost rare.
Every time I look at a captive herp I think of it in its original form, and perhaps it is an oddity of my own reckoning, I imagine all herp life in a time capsule before captive breeding or worldwide trade, sometimes even before we became modern humans.
They are all interesting - there are no boring herps.
Whether you as a herper and photographer keep, breed or not, even if you are a person who is not personally interested in herpetoculture - presenting these mainstreamed icons in a true light could impact others, including young people who have an interest in herpetology and a common part of that is keeping a reptile that is one of those iconic and readily available CB species, but all they can find to quench an interest deeper than the ordinary are photos of their animal in a tank on a care sheet. Photos of 'hobby animals' like Ball Pythons and Leopard Geckos in wild situ are comparatively scant..
Besides that, perhaps it is an opportunity for the well traveled photographers here, to dig up some photos that they have taken on trips and left out of their photographic reports because they thought they would be uninteresting compared to other finds.
Well, I think it might be interesting, fascinating even to see these species as they really are.
I thank you all for reading, and look forward to any photos posted.