Jungle Jade
Uploaded: November 06, 2006 11:03:08
The original photo of this emerald boa was taken at the St. Louis Zoo Serpentarium. Flood filter used here.
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Rhonda Burger November 06, 2006
Pretty cool. I have been to that Zoo many times and always find something new. It's a great place. #552452Colette M. Metcalf November 06, 2006
Great capture and effects!!! #3553425Mitch Spence November 06, 2006
Hey, Rhonda and Colette, thanks to you both for stopping to look. Rhonda, I wish I could get there oftener, but we're about 4 hours away, so doesn't work for just a day trip. #3553456Rhonda Burger November 06, 2006
I use to be in Springfield. We loved it when we had an excuse to drive across the state and visit. #3553481Melissa G. Meiselman November 06, 2006
I like your sharp details on this snake and the flood filter works well here, Mitch!! #3553492Sherri Gorman November 06, 2006
WOW, this is awesome!!!! #3553497Mitch Spence November 06, 2006
Melissa and Sherri, thanks much. Boy, it's a trial, getting the flood to work extended like this, isn't it? The snake and his original background sure were green though, weren't they? #3553524Janine Russell November 06, 2006
Mitch, very nice color, detail, lighting and effects. #3553871Mitch Spence November 06, 2006
Janine, thanks much for your comment. It's appreciated. #3554269Karen Walzer November 06, 2006
Excellent work. I love it! K #3554769Mitch Spence November 07, 2006
Karen, thanks for your great comment. It's encouraging and I appreciate it. #3558256Nadya Johnson November 09, 2006
This is awesome, Mitch! I won't be surprised to see it on the winners' page! #3567685Mitch Spence November 09, 2006
Nadya, thanks so much. I surely expect I'll see you on that page. #3568019Marilyn K. Lincecum November 11, 2006
Gorgeous colors and reflections. Great job with the flood filter and lighting. #3575908Marijana Fajgl November 12, 2006
She looks majestic! Stunning capture Mitch! #3576182Mitch Spence November 12, 2006
Marilyn and Marijana, thanks to you both once again. :-) #3576903Judy A. Lawhon December 06, 2006
Wonderful color and composition and I love the flood filter, Mitch! #3674481Mitch Spence December 06, 2006
Thanks, Judy. The filter is new to me, and it was certainly fun. #3674514ALLEN O. HOWARD December 21, 2006
A beautiful image and a beautiful use of the flood filter, Mitch!!! #3727317Mitch Spence December 22, 2006
Hey, thanks, Allen. Isn't all this stuff fun? Well . . . sometimes :) #3730160Kurt Hawkins December 29, 2006
very beautiful mitch .. most excellent .. B) #3749572Steve M. Harrington December 29, 2006
Hey, Mitch, congratulations!!!!!!C :)I'm truly pleased at your well deserved finalist.
Steve #3751140
Marijana Fajgl December 29, 2006
Big congratulations Mitch on your awesome finalist! #3751527Janine Russell December 29, 2006
Mitch, congratulations on your finalist. #3751585Paula Dwyer December 29, 2006
Congratulations Mitch!! :) #3752015ALLEN O. HOWARD December 29, 2006
Way to go, Mitch!!! #3752207Mitch Spence December 29, 2006
Gosh, this is the first I knew of the finalist status. My ISP has been totally messed up and supposedly is many many thousands of messages behind (spam, we presume). How exciting. Thank you Kurt, Steve, Marijana, Janine, Paula, and Allen for your very much appreciated congratulations. #3753614Nadya Johnson December 30, 2006
Yes!!! This "HAD" to be a finalist! It's an awesome photo, Mitch! Congratulations! Best of luck in the second round! I too have had nothing but computer problems lately... got worse JUST in time for the finals, so I do believe it's a conspiracy! LOL. #3760303Virginia Leone December 30, 2006
Big congrats on your fine finalist photo! Good luck! #3760471Laurie Daily December 30, 2006
Amazing colors and fantastic use of the flood filter! I still haven't really been able to use that one yet and make it work for me. Congratulations Mitch! #3760911Mitch Spence December 31, 2006
Nadya, Virginia, and Laurie, thanks a lot. It was fun to try something new. We dealt with this in Scott Stulberg's BP class, which prompted me to expand my horizons, so to speak. :-) #3763376Vladan D. Djordjevic January 05, 2007
Great color and tones, details, composition, reflection! #3785509Mitch Spence January 06, 2007
Vladan, thank you. #3788667Carol Teal January 14, 2007
Wow, I love this! I thought the water was real until I read you used flood. Great effect and photo! Congrats on your finalist! #3818482Mitch Spence January 14, 2007
Thanks a lot, Carol. I'm delighted that you like it, and especially that you thought at first the water was real. #3818531Jennifer Cuscino February 13, 2007
REALLY REALLY good use of that filter. Fantastic image! #3945227Mitch Spence February 14, 2007
Despite all the fussing around it took, it really was fun to do. #3947053Karen Slagle February 26, 2007
Oh wow, Mitch. Don't know how I missed this when it was announced but I think it's fantastic. The beautiful green colors and addition of the flood filter really makes this special. Belated congrats on this.....Karen #3996874Mitch Spence February 26, 2007
Karen, thanks so much for your comment and for coming to look. Oh, listen, I'm always amazed at the things I just haven't seen somehow. So many neat things to look at, they do tend to get away from me. #3996978JO ANN CLEVELAND October 27, 2007
Whoa! How could something like this be so beautiful! I can't stand snakes, very afraid of them ~ however, this is great ~ colors and reflections are fantastic!jo ann c. #4990611
Amanda D. Austwick December 07, 2007
Love this. We want to make a trip to the Knoxville zoo. I haven't been to a zoo like atmosphere for years. #5179989Mitch Spence December 12, 2007
Ah, thanks, Amanda and Jo Ann. Favorite places of mine, zoos. May be the only way we'll save a lot of species, you know. And, hey, most definitely the only way I'll probably ever get this close to some of these guys. :) #5200683Gary Enloe April 14, 2012
Hi Mitch, nice capture of this guy. He must be photographed a lot. I have a photo of him also using the flood filter in my gallery on page 22 called " out on a limb " if you care to see it. I live in St. Peters, Mo. in St. Charles County. We are neighbors. Lol #10090363Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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