studio shoot images - Joel Sartore

Ass’s-ear abalone (Haliotis asinina) at Semirara Marine Hatchery Laboratory in the Philippines.

A St. Lucia lancehead (Bothrops caribbaeus) at Reptile Gardens.

A rare rough-scaled python (Morelia carinata) at Reptile Gardens.

A sonoran whipsnake (Masticophis bilineatus) at Reptile Gardens.

An endangered Louisiana pine snake, (Pituophis ruthveni) at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.

A Field’s viper (Pseudocerastes fieldi) at Reptile Gardens.

Photographer Joel Sartore takes a self portrait as he paints a polar bear’s “off exhibit area” black for a photo shoot.

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker