2019 YB Pied het Lavender produced by Kobylka @ 1070 grams
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2019 Pastel Dreamsicle 1.1 pair produced by Justin Kobylka. Both currently between 500 and 600 grams. They have a faint greenish tone that is hard to pickup on camera. There’s some interesting variation between them. The female has more lavenders while the male is a hair lighter with thicker whites, especially evident when you compare their heads and upper necks.
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incredible photo 
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The differences between your two sets of dreamsicles is so striking, is that just from the addition of pastel in one set or is there more at play here?
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Thanks! My 17 year old camera equipment can still hang! You can also see in the eye reflection that all the light is coming from the bounce flash off the ceiling 
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The difference between the dreamsicles is due to age and the pastel gene… but primarily age. The little ones were born just a few months ago and around 100 grams in those photos while the pastel dreamsicles are yearlings at 500+ grams. Once the little ones are out of quarantine I’ll do a photo session with all of them together for a fun comparison. According to grandmaster Kobylka regular dreamsicles are brighter than pastel dreamsicles as babies but pastel dreamsicles are “way brighter” as adults. We shall see!
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Just did a 5 dreamsicle photo session with the intention of doing it halloween themed with pumpkins but I could not get these guys to cooperate for any group shots outside of the holding tub. I also need a different (not so close) lens and larger pumpkins. Oh well! In the photos are two 2019 Pastel Dreamsicles (a boy and a girl, produced by Justin Kobylka) and three Dreamsicle girls (produced by Garrick DeMeyer). The male, who is on the top wrapped around the bunch in the tub photo, weighed in at 730 grams today will be going into the breeding program very soon. He also shed yesterday and pulled up some incredible yellows. Quality pastel lavenders seem to pile on lots of yellow around the 700-800 gram mark. He definitely kicked up a notch with this last shed. Fingers crossed he’s a good breeder for me in my first ball python breeding season. The pastel dreamsicles are half siblings (different moms) and the dreamsicles all have different moms and may or may not have the same dad.
The one photo I got before they all squirmed away.
In the holding tub
Standard baby dreamsicle vs pastel yearling dreamsicle close up comparison. Same (male) pastel dreamsicle (larger one), two different dreamsicles. Top photo is the most contrasty girl from Garrick but she is getting ready to go into shed. The one on the bottom has more of light orange fading, very cool pattern.
Baby dreamsicle admiring the yellows in the pastel dreamsicle. This particular dreamsicle has the most initial lavender compared to the other two from Garrick.
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Those are such cool pictures! I love seeing them all together
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So insane thanks for sharing!
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This girl just reached the 1400g mark! Crazy how fast she is growing, she’s had strict weekly feedings since I got her as a hatchling.
Pumpkin (YB) Pied Het Lavender in her native habitat
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Old camera finally died. After almost 20 years… it was time. Here’s a quick shot of the dreamsicle females from Garrick DeMeyer with the ambient light of the room with my new camera. These girls are doing great and are up to around 600 grams taking F/T small rats weekly.
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I’ve been really enjoying the higher ISO capability, color accuracy, and sharpness of my new full frame camera.
Here’s some updated photos of my Ultramel female who just weighed in at 1250 grams. She’s held great color and contrast into adulthood.
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A couple new photos of “Holly”, the largest of my three 2020 dreamsicle females pushing 600g+. Still figuring out my new camera!
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Pretty girl! She has the same name as me haha
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Thanks! We named the three dreamsicle girls we got from Garrick DeMeyer after “The Office” characters Jan, Pam, and Holly :).
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Some comparison photos of “Holly” the female dreamsicle (just weighed in at 650g) and “Sunshine”, my 2019 female pastel dreamsicle (1150g):
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What one do you like better? I can’t pick, LOL
They are both super high contrast animals and super beautiful.
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Thanks!
The younger standard dreamsicle is the highest contrast of three that I got from Garrick and while she’s really nice I think when she reaches 1100+ grams she wont be quite as colorful. I think the pastel pulls in a different array of tones on top of increasing color intensity. The colors in her headstamp are unreal. So I’d have to pick the pastel dreamsicle between the two :).
Here’s a close-up crop of her head from one of the photos above
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Wow what even looks really lavender in the picture
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