Portrait of a green snake
Image by Tambako the Jaguar
Picture taken in the zoo of Zürich. Not so easy because of the low light conditions, but the result is okay.
The exact name of the snake is Red-tailed Green Rat Snake (Gonyosoma oxycephela).
Made it in Explore, #236, November 4th 2008.
Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho, View across the Top of the Falls (Wheeler Survey)
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Artist: Timothy H. O’Sullivan, born Ireland 1840-died New York City 1882
Type: Photography-Photoprint
Date: 1874
Topic: Landscape\Idaho
Landscape\river\Snake River
Landscape\waterfall\Shoshone Falls
Object number: 1994.91.141
Medium: albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard
Credit Line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Persistent URL:http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=34341
Repository:Smithsonian American Art Museum
Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho. (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
O’Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer.
Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho.
[United States], 1874.
1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen.
Notes:
Original negative number: 92.
Title from item.
Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.
Published in: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan / Toby Jurovics, Carol M. Johnson, Glenn Willumson, and William F. Stapp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, p. 220.
Subjects:
Waterfalls–Idaho–1870-1880.
Shoshone Falls (Idaho)–1870-1880.
Snake River (Wyo.-Wash.)–1870-1880.
Format: Expedition photographs–1870-1880.
Stereographs–1870-1880.
Albumen prints–1870-1880.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s00409
Call Number: LOT 3427-4, no. 39 [item]
the snake, the engine, and the roadtrip
Image by emdot
jenn (aka b.n.e., best neighbor ever) and ryan went on a roadtrip. they took six weeks to meander across the states and hit the sites. at the apex they saw Zephyr1 in Mass as well as R. Bean, in new york city. this is my favorite story from their trip.
while in oregon they spent a night in a campground next to a man and a woman who were camping with cats. "the cats are nothing," the man said, "you should see the 10-foot boa constrictor we have with us." they didn’t see the snake and the next morning the man and woman were gone, on their way to their next destination. and i’m sure as jenn and ry got on the road they never thought they would think of that strange meeting again.
that was until two days later.
they were in olympia, washington after two days of traveling and meandering. jenn had just left a restroom and ryan was just heading into one. jenn walked back to the truck and as she passed the hood, something caught the corner of her eye.
"snake! snake!" she yelled and she ran to the restroom and began to bang on the door to get ryan. all the comotion also summoned a few onlookers who came to see if they could help.
sure enough, there was a snake’s head peering out at them from underneath the car. sure enough the entire 10-foot boa constrictor had wrapped its body around the engine of the car. sure enough — or as the sweet luck of serendipity would have it — one of the onlookers was a snake-lover. he volunteered to remove the big boa and happily began to do so.
luckily jenn had her camera handy.
one: snake peering out from the truck’s underbelly
two: snake wrapped around the engine
three: snake lover pulling snake out from the truck
four: snake fully out
needless to say, snake-lover guy has a new slithering friend.
