Short introduction with some random pics...

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Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Sebastian Dörnemann » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:37 pm

Hi folks,

my name is Sebastian, I´m german, born 1977 and I live in Düsseldorf the beautyful capital of Northrhine-Westphalia.
I´m into reptiles since my childhood. I guess I was only 11 years old when my parents did surrender and allowed me the keeping of my first Thamnophis spec.. From there on my collection was getting bigger and bigger and I kept a lot of different specimens of Colubridae and Boidae. As I got older I was getting more and more fascinated by venomous snakes and I started keeping pitvipers. After a few years my complete stock changed into Crotalinae, mainly animals of the Trimeresurus-complex.

So here´s a pic of a pair of Viridovipera vogeli which I´ve kept:
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1.1 Viridovipera vogeli


After all this years keeping and engaging only in exotic snakes I began to realize the beauty of european reptiles and I started to look for them, especially when I was on holidays.

So here I am walking around Krka Nationalpark in Croatia (Sibenik) while always keeping my view down to the ground:
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Me, myself and I ;)


...at least with some success :o .
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Natrix tessellata 2011 Croatia (Sibenik)


...and another croatian guy:
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Podarcis siculus 2011 Croatia (Zadar)


Now here some cretan (Greece) fellows:
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Hemidactylus turcicus 2010 Greece (Crete)


...an apish Turtle ;) :
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Mauremys rivulata 2010 Greece (Crete)


...and until now my personal fieldherp highlight:
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Zamenis situlus 2010 Greece (Crete)


Now last but not least some italian critters:
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Tarentola mauritanica 2010 Italy (Campania)

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Podarcis siculus 2010 Italy (Campania)

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Podarcis siculus (2) 2010 Italy (Campania)



Sorry for the bad quality of the shown pictures. They all were made by cellphones. But just last week I bought my first digital camera (Canon Eos 550D), hoping to produce some more presentable pictures.
First experiments with the new camera can be viewed here: http://www.fieldherping.eu/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=511

If any of the shown reptile is identified wrong by me, please correct.

Thanks to all of you and of course especially to Mario for sharing all those informations and awesome pics, I´m really impressed.

Kind regards
Sebastian

P.S.: Please excuse my bad english, school is long ago and in my job I don´t really need to speak proper english. Hopefully you are able to understand my text and my english becomes better while using this forum.
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:51 pm

Welcome! Your identifications are correct.
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Niklas Ban » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:55 pm

Welcome in the Forum! Out of Düsseldorf?!? I like :lol:
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Peter Oefinger » Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:48 am

Welcome Sebastian - this forum becomes a Düsseldorf-forum! ;)
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:34 am

Welcome!!!
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Niklas Ban » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:17 pm

Maybe we could do a little trip together :?: :)
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Sandra Panienka » Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:39 pm

Welcome. Nice pics. :)
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Sebastian Dörnemann » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:00 pm

Hi there,

a big thanks to all of you for this nice reception.


Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Your identifications are correct.

Thank you for verifying. Now I can remove the questionmarks at the Padarcis foto comments.


Niklas Ban wrote:Out of Düsseldorf?!? I like :lol:

Peter Oefinger wrote:this forum becomes a Düsseldorf-forum! ;)

:shock: :D I didn´t expect meeting any Düsseldorfer at this forum and now we´re already three :?. Notably while Düsseldorf isn´t really the best place for this kind of hobby.
@ Peter: Great Homepage, just impressing.

Niklas Ban wrote:Maybe we could do a little trip together :?: :)

Why not, I´d have a few ideas where we could do a trip to. And if a skilled person like Peter would like to join us, I would do the driving ;).


Sandra Panienka wrote:Nice pics.

Hm :? . But the motives indeed are nice ;). Thank you for your comment.


Regards
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Niklas Ban » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:08 pm

Sebastian Dörnemann wrote:
Niklas Ban wrote:Maybe we could do a little trip together :?: :)

Why not, I´d have a few ideas where we could do a trip to. And if a skilled person like Peter would like to join us, I would do the driving ;).


I am always ready for a trip would be great if we can managed it to do a "Duesseldorfherper" trip :lol:
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Re: Short introduction with some random pics...

Postby Peter Oefinger » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:25 pm

ok, just write a pm.
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