I have to tell you about Jeff's opinion of the photos so far (he's my husband)
this came up, because I showed him the one I am planning to use, and he called it "gross" - something to do with whitish skin patches between the scales
so, of course I had to see whether the entire close-up realm would be gross to him, and showed him the contest entries so far
for the most part he doesn't care for them, but he really landed hard on Steve's photo
the only reason I will share this here, is because I know that we here on this forum look at these images with a perception unique to us, and Steve will not take this personally - coming from a non-snake-person
and no matter how long I stare at it, I can't see that Steve's photo looks anything like "beetles crawling through poop"
should I be upset that he couldn't be more poetic about the grossness of my photo?