While helping out with a red wolf recovery project (photos to come later) we came across this timber rattlesnake basking in the late afternoon sun. I crawled out on the road to get this photo, making sure to stay back far enough that if it tried to strike me it wouldn’t be able to reach.
Owen Slater Photography 
where did you find this at?
Along a dirt road near Colombia, North Carolina. I was working with the USFWS on a red wolf recovery project and came across this snake while looking for one of the wolves.