Stunning snake portraits David Pescovitz 11:09 am Mon, Mar 4, 2013 In 2011, photographer Mark Laita created Sea, a book of stunning portraits of strange ocean creatures. Now comes Serpentine, in which Laita points his lens at a stunning series of snakes. Above, Rowley’s Palm Pit Viper (Bothriechis rowleyi). Serpentine by Mark Laita (Amazon) “Snakes in a Frame: Mark Laita’s Stunning Photographs of Slithering Beasts” (Smithsonian)