I'm a medicine doctor from Italy: since my childhood I was interested in nature, animals and mainly in snakes.
My English is not perfect, but I also know very well Italian and rather good German: I've studied in fact as a dermatologist in Mainz.
I'm not a good or “professional” photographer: I use a small compact camera, and of the most interesting findings I've made in my life (a huge reddish N.natrix, two specimens of 100% melanistic N.tessellata found in Italy, a full back-keeled scaled Z.longissimus, a light grey- almost white V.aspis male)... sorry I've no picture at all!
My favorite European species are Z.longissimus and Z.situla.