Look'n for Me Mates...!

[Ken Ramos]

For those of you who may wonder about the header, we have a television commercial here that depicts a gecko with an accent from "down under," selling insurance. Oftentimes, our TV commercials are much better than the regular programing and the commercial involving the gecko is quite cute at times. Though this may not be a geko, I don't know. I would not doubt that North Carolina does not have at least a few. I know that when I was living in the Philippine Islands, the more gekos your home had, the more it was worth.



I was just by luck that I found this little lizard creeping among the honeysuckle which grows at the edge of the front yard, at the tree line of the woods adjacent to my house.



It took a bit of time, patience, and coaxing with the ol'finger to get this little fellow out into the open just enough for a shot of almost the whole body. Though it was quite cooperative for having its photograph taken, it was recluctant to stay in the open for very long and who wouldn't if they were its size with a bunch of hungry birds about.


Canon EOS 30D
Manual Mode/hand held
1/125 sec. @ f/14 ISO 100
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 430EX Speedlite ETTL @ -1
Late afternoon, clearing after thunderstorms
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[jmlphoto]

wow great shots number two is awesome. lizards and there type are so fun to shoot for me. some of them run like hell but others seem to pose like they know whats going on. hes sort of plain in colors compared to the ones around here. i know what commercials your talking about he does look very similar.

[salden]

Probably is the gecko and he is probably on vacation and we will hear about you crash jumping his vacation in his next commercial

[Ken Ramos]

Thanks jmlphoto, thanks Sue Wouldn't it be funny if it did turn out as you say Sue.

[beetleman]

An excellent find Ken and a trio of beautiful photographs. I am guessing but it is probably a green Anole-Anolis carolinensis carolinensis. Acording to the book on reptiles I have, all the geckos are extreme southern species, like south Texas, Florida keys.

[Ken Ramos]

Thanks Doug Now I have an ID for my journal entry. I was not sure if geckos were found this far north, unless they were traveling insurance salesmen or...er...uh...saleslizards