Watch where you put your hands!

[mike_c]

A juvenile rattlesnake at White Pocket. This fellow did not move at all while a half dozen photographers bunched up close and stuck cameras in it's face.

[usonian]

1. This is why I got a Coolpix with a 3000mm. effective focal length.

I call it Mount Palomar.

Stay safe, everyone. No selfies on Glacier Point, either!

[mike_c]

2. Mount Palomar!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. This is a fabulous photo, my dear mike_c!

The rock as background is superb.

Now, if I were taking that photo I would be standing where you're standing, and using my 100--400mm lens!

Ya done good!

[mike_c]

6. thanks!

I was too pooped to back up, lol. That was an early night!

[twodogsbarking]

4. Nice snek mate.

[mike_c]

7. thanks!

[3Hotdogs]

5. I guess it was long, about 25 years ago. N.J., Delaware Water Gap. Our hero was hiking up Mt. Tammany

and he encounters a Timber Rattlesnake, sunning itself, minding it's own business.

Mr. Kodak wants a photo but the snakes head wasn't in the Sunlight. So, as the article in the paper read,
"I reached down to adjust the snake."

For his efforts, he spent two weeks in hospital.

[mike_c]

8. I hate it when that happens

[ShazzieB]

9. Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi! 😱

I'm probably one of the least ophidiophobic* people in the world, but that sent chills down even MY spine!

*Ophidiophobia = fear of snakes