I searched for another thread in which to put this one, but gave up and started this. Taken with the E-M5 and the 70-300mm 4/3 Zuiko. I'm getting more keepers at marginal shutter speeds due to the IBIS of the E-M5. I'm happy, even if our little friend, below, seems a bit less so. Their perpetually disdainful look amuses me.

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Lumix DMC-GF1, Lumix 14-140 f4-5.8 at 140mm

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Lumix DMC-GF1, Lumix 14-140 f4-5.8 at 140mm

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Hope you weren't too close. I took the tarp off my generator one day and there was a little prairie rattler curled up on it. We took off in opposite directions!

Ned: the second to the last shot makes me laugh. What a wonderfully goofy expression!

I wonder if the powers that be could pen a thread like this? I started one for reptiles a few weeks ago, and it's dropped off the radar. (The photo was another Sceloporus, by the way.)

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I looked before I started this; though I won't claim my computer search skills are professional, I usually do OK. I need to get down to my favorite turtle spot near the Rio Grande with my E-M5, and I'll be putting some pictures on this thread eventually, so I'll keep it going for a while. I guess reptiles just aren't very cuddly looking, although I'm absolutely fanatical in my love of turtles, and the lizards running around (or basking) all summer are a constant source of amusement. Look at Ned's lizard pictures above; how can you not be drawn to a face like that!?

In the meantime, here's a young bull snake I found curled up under the tire of my car one day last October. I hope he made it to a cozy nest for the winter. Living in the mountains here in New Mexico, I was once plagued with pack rats -- that even ate my spark plug wires! So I grew very fond of bull snakes, with their reputation as voracious eaters of rodents.

(Taken with a vintage 1949 Hektor and my trusty E-P2)

toad by foxtail_1, on Flickr

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Panasonic Lumix G5
Panasonic Lumix G3
Lumix 7–14 mm, 14 mm 2.5, 14–45 mm, 100–300 mm
Panasonic Leica 45 mm F2.8 macro

My photos on Flickr
Comments and critiques welcomed!

Shot with E-M5 and the ZD 70-300 @ 300mm iso 800

Marine Iguana, Galapagos, a couple of years ago. My trusty Panny G1 with the 45-200 before I sold it and the 14-45 in favor of a 14-140.

Gotta love those articulated LCDs! Otherwise I would have been on my belly.



Random Lizard, Zimbabwe, last fall. Trusty G1, 100-300 @ 150mm.

This was kind of an awkward shot, downwards from an overlook. Not very attractive photographically but I think the lizard's (natural) colors are neat.



Both photos are uncropped full frame, reduced to 1024x768.

I like Ned's lizard with the tongue sticking out!