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Mr Lizard
Mr Lizard
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Challenge: Free Study XIII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Australia Qld
Date: Sep 21, 2006
Aperture: 9.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 350
Galleries: Nature, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Sep 29, 2006

Went to Australia Zoo on holidays, only to find this little fellow sitting patiently for a photo.

Probably needs more light on the face, but I loved the back lit effect.

It was funny facing him lying on the ground spread eagled in front of curious onlookers.

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10/07/2006 10:26:23 PM
7 - Like this. Just wish it had a bit more 'pop' in the head area.
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10/06/2006 06:42:15 AM
Great b&w photo...well done with that natural dark background.
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10/05/2006 10:57:02 PM
Wouldnt wanna run into him thats for sure.
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10/05/2006 02:19:05 AM
nice focus might have been more interesting for me if Lizard took up more of the frame and showed off more of his unique texture
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10/04/2006 02:16:21 AM
The Celebration of the Lizard

Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother
Rotting in the summer ground
He fled the town

He went down South and crossed the border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there over his shoulder

One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shiny skin

Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin

Wake up!
You can't remember where it was
Had this dream stopped?

The snake was pale gold
Glazed and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were hot dead prisons

Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look!
I can't live thru each slow century of her moving
I let my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile
Feel the good cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain . . .

Once I had, a little game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called 'go insane'

Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world forget the people
And we'll erect a different steeple

This little game is fun to do
Just close your eyes no way to lose
And I'm right there I'm going too
Release control we're breaking thru

Way back deep into the brain
Back where there's never any pain
And the rain falls gently on the town
And in the labyrinth of streams
Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights

Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
Beast car locked in against morning
All now sleeping
Rugs silent, mirrors vacant
Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets
And daughters, smug
With semen eyes in their nipples

Wait
There's been a slaughter here

(Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground
We're getting out of town
We're going on the run
And you're the one I want to come)

Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's run

House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's run
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run

The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside

Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
C'mon along, we're not going very far
To the East to meet the Czar

Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We're almost home

Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon!
Soon!
Soon!

Let the carnival bells ring
Let the serpent sing
Let everything

We came down
The rivers and highways
We came down from
Forests and falls

We came down from
Carson and Springfield
We came down from
Phoenix enthralled
And I can tell you
The names of the Kingdom
I can tell you
The things that you know
Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade

'I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue cars go away

For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island

Now I have come again
To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise

Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
O Children of Night
Who among you will run with the hunt?

Now Night arrives with her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready'

ΓΆ€” Jim Morrison
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10/03/2006 10:31:24 PM
Cute little guy. This might work better in color, or possible a tighter shot.
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10/03/2006 09:53:17 AM
this kind of image need to be sharp and clean and unfortunately it's not... the most interesting think about these lizards are the textures and patterns which are not high-lighted here.. : (
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10/02/2006 02:28:01 AM
nicely setup.
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10/01/2006 06:15:13 PM
very nice contrasty shot
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10/01/2006 01:15:43 PM
I like the plane of focus running through the lizard.
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10/01/2006 05:40:03 AM
Lizards are usually very colorful thats why I would have like this one in color.
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