More Desert Museum

What state has the most species of rattlesnakes?  If you guessed Arizona you would be correct.  Arizona has 13 species of rattler.  

 I am still showing images from my Desert Museum shoot.  Today it's a set of images of Crotalus priceli or a Spotted Rattlesnake, also known as a twin spotted.  

About 9am they brought us indoors and into a room where they had a studio set up for us. We had two tables with white and gray backgrounds set up.  There was also a terrarium set up for us as well.  

A biologist walked in with two 5 gallon buckets.  There was a faint ratting sound coming from one of the buckets. From the first bucket a biologist brought out the spotted rattlesnake (using a snake hook) and set it on a table with backgrounds.  She stayed near the snake and kept in on the backgrounds for us while we were free to walk around and get shots. We were able to get up to about 30inches from the table. 

Here are my keepers from this part of the shoot.