White-Lipped Tree Viper

Although I wasn't a professional photographer when I visited the Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute in 2012, I certainly looked the part, and was able to convince the workers here to let me take photos of their snake show from ground level, with the snakes, and from a much better vantage point than offered by the bleachers that everyone else had to watch from. The Institute was first opened in 1913 in order to help study and manufacture vaccines for infectious diseases of the day. Today, their basic mission is the same, but they also collect snake venom in order to create antivenom to help people who have been bitten by any of the venomous snakes – and there's no shortage of them – in this part of the world. This photo is of a white-lipped tree viper – a beautiful and venomous snake that lives in Southeast Asia. Available in the following sizes (Rectangle B): 8x12, 12x18, 16x24.