2003 - Chicago
Photos and comments by Jason Hess @ Jason's Jungle

Mark O'Shea was the special guest there and spent all day Saturday signing autographs. A genuine nice guy and one heck of a herpetologist.

This is another of Mark's display. This pictures shows a caramel albino, a very funky super pastel, and a ghost.

One of the shows best in my opinion was Mark's adult genetic stripe ball python. Absolutely amazing.

BHB had a great setup as well and had some real treasures at the back of their display. As usual, Brian and his assistant were absolutely great and had no problems opening up lids so we could get pictures and letting us hold some prestigious snakes. This picture here is of two spiders and two baby cinnamon pastels. This was my first time seeing Brian's line of cinnamon and they are incredible.

Gila Monster

Well, I was talking about my three favorites. This was another one of them. This is NERD's coral glow, one of their only projects that they're not audible about. It's almost a fact that one of it's parents is the Whitesmoke but nobody is for sure what the other half is. Could be caramel albino, could be normal albino, could be lavender albino...one thing is for certain, this snake is AWESOME!

This was an albino paradox retic that Prehistoric Pets had at the show. It was almost blinding underneath the black light. Unfortunately my camera doesn't do it justice.

This was Tracy Barker signing Travis's Ball Pythons of the World Vol. 1 book. She was GREAT to talk to, like talking to somebody you've known for years.

The 3rd of my favorites from the show was this ivory blood that Tracy brought with her. Words can't even describe it!

Lastly were these striped bloods also from VPI. A very different mutation when compared to a normal blood.