Another one from a dendroaspis with an open mouth.
Taken 2006 in Peter's fantastic reptile zoo. Took me about 30 minutes of waiting after she yawned and I waited for another yawning ... finally she (or he?) did.
If I had not known why it is called "black mamba", then I would have ...

thanks - thats an outstanding picture, from an outstanding animal who lives in an outstanding place managed be an outstanding friend...

M.

...outstanding people do have outstanding friends
Peter

Awesome...

Nice picture!

Cheers,
Harold

Very nice picture Guenter!!

Mamba! Of course from Peter Zürcher's zoo:

That is for me the best black mamba shot I have seen , If possible maybe you can send me the full resolution so I can print this , frame it and put it up on my wall. Also for some reason it is reminding me of the great white shark.

I must agree, although you have great shots all of the time that mujst be the best black mamba shot i´ve seen

Hi,
Thanks a lot, I'm honoured!
Just email me at "guenter@leitenbauer.net" and I answer You with the full res file.
Have a nice day,
Guenter

grrreeeaaat shot, WOW!
Guenter, we love you for your fantastic photography
Thanx for sharing with us!
Cheers
Benjamin

Hello Guenter

What a amazing Picture! I never see a Photo like this bevor.
Thank you so mutch.
If you make Holidays in Switzerland-please let me know

Christoph

That is fantastic!! I like........a lot!

Guenter, I've been quietly admiring your photos for some time now and not commented. But, you have outdone yourself on that second open mouth mamba shot. What a great photo of a truly impressive snake.

Thanks a lot to You all. To give a view behind the scenes of this take:

It was crisp in the original only at the very top of the nose. So I had to take another mambashot from a similar angle to get a crisp eye and another one to get the scales around. Every scale was the overworked and sharpened at the edges. Of course brightness, contrast and colours of the shots hat to be fitted together too.

The eye and the scales needed some resizing, rotation and reshaping too, as the shots were not taken from exactly the same angle.

After this the rest was easy: just levels and curves and a bit desaturated.

Overall time about 2 hours for this one. That is much, even for me.

BTW: Why can't the fangs not be seen here? Are it hidden behind the white mucosa?

I am sorry if I am hi-jacking the thread, but I just want to show you a fairly good picture within the "Mouth open" theme..

I haven´t done anything with the picture other then correcting a little in the brightness / light.

Yikes!
No problem, eny of You is invited to psot his/her photos of open mouth here!

two pictures of crotalus durissus cumanensis

OMG - THAT are fangs!!

No, in Austria "Huch" (="Yikes") is a outcry if You get scared by something or at least surprised.
The photo is fine for me!

The open mouth of the most venomous landliving snake
(the photo isn´t the best of all )