lookANDsee

A huntsman spider out for a night on the tiles.

This snake posed patiently while I took several photographs. The red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is venomous, but not aggressive - that means that if I leave it plenty room to escape it won’t bite! This specimen was about 1.5 metres in length.

[Why does it have a white eye? The camera decided that the flash needed to go off. Many digital photography applications can remove “red-eye� from humans, but, unfortunately, Photoshop doesn't have an automated means of removing “white-eye� from snakes ].