Water Dragon

[GBO25]

As a photographic subject these water dragons have to be one of my favourite lizards. They're just so prehistoric.

#1


#2


#3



#4

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Barbara Ponder]

Great shots! Kinda scary!

[Rita]

An interesting creature. The detail and the pose makes #4 my first choice of this set.

[Nicks Pics]

Very interesting and different! I like them. Seems like I had first heard of a water iguana just today! Not the usual sort of thing we see here.

[FootLoose]

I like the 2nd shot with the head reflected, Graham, and the 4th for the detail. That is a great shot.

These guys turn up anywhere. I live in the middle of town - concrete and bitumen - but I still have one visit my courtyard occasionally. I wonder if they travel through the storm water drains. Glad they keep moving though.

[Stagecoach]

Good set Graham, I especially like No 3 with the separation of texture in the composition.

[IzzieK]

Although I do not really like lizards, my favourite is #4 for the great detail in it. 70mm -- how close were you at this creature when you took that shot?! I like the eye. For me, #1 is a look-see-here-I-am sort of shot. #2 is really good with the reflection and #3 how it looks like. I had forgotten how big this is...in reality I mean...

[GBO25]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

..... 70mm -- how close were you at this creature when you took that shot?!
......I had forgotten how big this is...in reality I mean...

Izzie I was about 3 or 4 feet away. I got the shot and it ran away.
They're only about 2 feet (60cm) from nose to tail, much smaller than a goanna and they always run away in the end.

[TonyW]

No 4 must be the killer shot here. I have not been able to get as good an image of one of these. At a family picnic just over a year ago one of these ran up my son's arm and snatched the sandwich out of his hand.

[GBO25]

No 4 must be the killer shot here. I have not been able to get as good an image of one of these. At a family picnic just over a year ago one of these ran up my son's arm and snatched the sandwich out of his hand.

And if you're on the north side of Brisbane there's a plant nursery called Eden Gardens which has a cafe and there's nearly always 3 or 4 water dragons wandering around on the floor looking for scraps. Puts the wind up some patrons.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice set Graham I like them all .

[FootLoose]

This is the variety I see. They're about a metre long - or more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Au...13.02.2012.jpg

[GBO25]

G'day Greg
Their Qld cousins don't get much bigger than about 60-70 centimetres (2 -2.5 feet).

[NorthernFocus]

Coold shots. We saw a couple of those guys when we were down there last year. Funny they're so small to be called drogons. But very interesting critters.