The Amazing Serpentine Photos of Guido Mocafico

By prawn1 December 23rd, 2009

I got this from Lucy Furr’s twitter (she is known as FurryLuce if you’d like to follow her) and it was too beautiful not to post here. When Lucy and I went to Thailand in 2006, we visited a snake park and it was such a depressing situation seeing these beautiful creatures cooped up in dirty glass boxes; some of the poisonous snakes had bleeding gums, presumably from the frequently milking they were subjected to.

It’s just something painful I remembered when I saw the amazing shots from Italian photographer Guido Mocafico. In his two-part Serpens series, Mocafico photographs snakes in a color-neutral, enclosed space to bring out their hypnotic beauty. The patterns and colours that result are amazing to say the least. You’ll find some of the photos after the jump.

mocafico serpens 01

mocafico serpens 02

mocafico serpens 03

mocafico serpens 04

mocafico serpens 05

mocafico serpens 06

mocafico serpens 07

mocafico serpens 08

mocafico serpens 09

mocafico serpens 10

There are 53 breath-taking images in the Serpens series – part 1 | part 2.

[via This Blog Rules via FurryLuce]

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2 Comments

OneStonedCrow (Reply) on December 23rd, 2009
Stunning images – great post … the only downer was your description of living conditions of the reptiles you saw in Thailand …
prawn1 (Reply) on December 23rd, 2009
I’m hoping there isn’t a photographer who takes amazing shots of elephants. You don’t want me to get started on how badly some of the elephants are treated in Thailand.