Artistic Shots- Well thought out, framed (positioned), artistic shots only please.

[Lost Canadian]

ywen, love what's going on with the light in those shots. Really nice.

Pat, her being in the shot wouldn't be bad if she wasn't obscured, but since she becomes an element in the frame crossing another element, the birds neck, she's a distraction to me. Fortunately she's not a major element in the frame so the impact of leaving her in isn't of much consequence to the overall image, but if you can remove her, I would.

 

[taco2go]

Great shot Pat, Tho I have to agree that once I spotted the kayak, I suppose, it does distract from the overall composition -but it adds context.

Cormorants are eerily beautiful though, they have that dark Hitchcockian presence, the way they cluster together, and I think you framed that really well.
I have not noticed the white breasted ones before, at least up north here in MI, are they juveniles?

A couple of years ago, while paddling around south Manitou island, I got a shot of some guarding a wreck,

 

[taco2go]

Taken with a 100mm Macro.

 

[pismo62]

Nice Macro shot

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

I finally have another picture i feel that I can post here...

 

[pismo62]

Nice shot! Looks like a friendly Bearded Dragon!

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

Nice shot! Looks like a friendly Bearded Dragon!

Horny toad. :ylsmoke:

 

[pismo62]

We've got a bearded dragon and it look so similar.

Here one after the recent storms along the central coast.

 

[HB 4X4]

Horny toad. :ylsmoke:

That is not a toad, it is in the lizard family. Bearded dragon is more accurate since it's actually a horned lizard. This one specifically is probably a desert horned lizard.

For reference, there is no such thing as a horny toad or frog in this case. People just started calling them that at some point in time, but they are in fact a lizard.

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

That is not a toad, it is in the lizard family. Bearded dragon is more accurate since it's actually a horned lizard. This one specifically is probably a desert horned lizard.

For reference, there is no such thing as a horny toad or frog in this case. People just started calling them that at some point in time, but they are in fact a lizard.

Jeeze you really think so??? I didnt know it was inappropriate to call an animal by a common name. You know, like "dude". And since you are being more accurate, there are no such things as dragons, therefore the more accurate name would be bearded lizard. At some point someone thought because they flair the skin below their jaw out and hiss they might be a dragon. Totally not the case.

You might have also added that Pagona vitticeps is a species native to Australia not North America. The Phrynosoma, (sorry I dont know which sub species I saw) is of course only found in North America.

I might add that since the age of 12 I have been an avid reptile enthusiast and began a short, professional career as a herpetologist, but that was interrupted by college, where I was then unable to keep reptiles in my dorm room, much less the three pit vipers. I also bred and sold "bearded dragons."

Thanks, have a nice day.

 

[HB 4X4]

Jeeze you really think so??? I didnt know it was inappropriate to call an animal by a common name. You know, like "dude". And since you are being more accurate, there are no such things as dragons, therefore the more accurate name would be bearded lizard. At some point someone thought because they flair the skin below their jaw out and hiss they might be a dragon. Totally not the case.

You might have also added that Pagona vitticeps is a species native to Australia not North America. The Phrynosoma, (sorry I dont know which sub species I saw) is of course only found in North America.

I might add that since the age of 12 I have been an avid reptile enthusiast and began a short, professional career as a herpetologist, but that was interrupted by college, where I was then unable to keep reptiles in my dorm room, much less the three pit vipers. I also bred and sold "bearded dragons."

Thanks, have a nice day.

Flexin' those internet muscles...?

As a reptile expert, I would have assumed you wouldn't call them by the name made up by un-informed individuals based on what it looks like when it flattens it's stomach out.

I was just pointing it out, I'll refrain from correcting you in the future.

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

I was just pointing it out, I'll refrain from correcting you in the future.

Thanks, that will best.

 

[Mr. Leary]

:REExeSquatsHL1:









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What is the verb for the herpetology profession?

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

:REExeSquatsHL1:

:coffeedrink:


What is the verb for the herpetology profession?

Herpetologists go "herping".:sombrero:

 

[08whitex]