a rare opportunity to meet some gorgeous but deadly snakes

Gosh, seems he takes big chances with the venomous ones. Some of those are very deadly if it bites you. But your pictures are beautiful. The second copperhead, where is he from? His color is more orangey than brown.
After one of our snakehunting trips to South Carolina, we had a batch of copperheads, and stopped at a reptile pet shop to sell them. My husband said the man was so careless with the copperheads as he put them into boxes, that he was going to get bit bad someday. About a two week later we heard he got nailed by a large rattlesnake, cause he was showing off for his friends and he ended up in the hospital.