Took this at one of the craft fair's I attended in Franklinton, LA. They had an exhibit set up with snakes and this one was hanging on the canopy above my head. The white background is the actual canopy. I had to crop it tight to make sure the poles for the canopy were not in the shot. Especially the one he was hanging from. I didn't even notice the snake until someone pointed it out. I started taking pictures and it kept getting so close it would land on my lens and start coming towards my face. I had to keep knocking it off to try to get more shots.
I kept moving my finger around in front of the snake to get him to look and come towards me until the guy in the tent say, "you might not want to do that, he has pretty aggressive fangs and might think your finger is food." At which point I thought, "and you have him hanging above people's head's?" Oh well
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