Photos and texts by Pascal Sauvé (Kitchener, Ontario)
http://timestop.zenfolio.com

Imagine a guy who is afraid of snakes of any kind or sizes walking on a nature path and pausing for a moment on the shores of the Grand River.

And then the guy notices that he's surrounded with multiple nests of young grass snakes slithering inches away from his feet.

Normally, he would bolt and run to the hills screaming "Yike Yike Yike !..."

But not this time. Not when he realized the rarity and the opportunity of the unique moments that could be captured with his camera.

In a split-second, the fear tap was turned off and the photographer's tap was turned on full. And then he got closer and closer to his subjects until he reached the focusing limit of his Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR II zoom lens set at 200 mm and fired away shot after shot of moving snakes until one showed it's fully extended red and black forked tongue.

That man on that day was not afraid because he was a photographer. And that photographer was me.