Lizards, snakes, toads, frogs, turtles and other reptiles & amphibians

[Lawrence A.]

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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[Ned]

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[rgeorge911]

Rattler


_1040353.jpg by reed_flickr (www.creativeobjective.com), on Flickr

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

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My Lumix Blog: DMC-365.blogspot.com

 

[Lawrence A.]

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

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My Lumix Blog: DMC-365.blogspot.com[/QUOTE]

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!

 

[Lawrence A.]

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

 

[foxtail1]

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.)

 

[Lawrence A.]

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.)

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)

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[foxtail1]

toad by foxtail_1, on Flickr

 

[Lawrence A.]

Hanging out on the porch

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

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[oldracer]

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.



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

 

[Lawrence A.]

Oldracer: Love the first shot. He looks almost made of stone. Amazing!

 

[oldracer]

Love the first shot. He looks almost made of stone. Amazing!

Yeah. That's my favorite from the trip. Maybe because it's so monochromatic. I never thought of that. Here are a couple of more colorful guys:





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[nueces snapper]

Bull Snake with iPhone

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[Lawrence A.]

Nueces Snapper: OK, I know phones can take pictures, but I was still expecting to see a bull snake WITH --- an iPhone. I don't know what I thought he'd be doing with it, but I did look for a phone. Maybe it's a generational thing.

Nice shot, beautiful shapes the way he's curled. And I grew fond of bull snakes when the pack rats they like to eat nibbled through my spark plug wires and started to build a nest in my car engine over a long weekend when I lived out in the country.

 

[Lawrence A.]

Yeah. That's my favorite from the trip. Maybe because it's so monochromatic. I never thought of that. Here are a couple of more colorful guys:

They're wonderful. Once again I like the gray one -- with the pink underneath. The eyes are amazing.

 

[JudyM]

Red-eared sliders at one of my favorite parks

Gf1 with Carl Zeiss 80-200mm f4 Vario Sonnar

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[Lawrence A.]

Bravo JudyM: I adore turtles. My house is filled with way too many turtle things, small statures mostly. Turtles make me smile. And their apparent patience is a great lesson to my constant and lifelong impatience. Thank you.

 

[fredlong]

No lizards around here. How about a toad.

 

[Lawrence A.]

A toad is perfect. And a perfect toad it is. I lived my first 40 years in Massachusetts with no lizard (except salamanders) which may be why I find them so irresistible now.

Thanks for the back home toad.

 

[daimos]

gh2, 45mm panasonic

P1030396 by daimosz, on Flickr