Spitting Cobra Strikes

Robert Madden

National Geographic

The assignment was to illustrate venom. Putting the 'milking' pictures out of my mind I came up with using a spitting cobra. To stop the venom I needed lights that would fire at short durations and apparatus to be able to get the exact moment she would 'spit' at the handler's eyes.

Robert Madden, "Spitting Cobra Strikes," in POYi Archive, Item #8888, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/8888 (accessed November 23, 2024).