Anolis carolinensis

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:17 am

Anolis carolinensis
EOS 20D
Manual mode, hand held
1/125 sec. @ f/14 ISO 100
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Canon 430EX Speedlite @ -2/3, off camera w/Novoflex bracket
PP: Photo Impact 6

First of these I have seen this year. A few are a bright green but most around here are a grayish-brown. This one is about 2½ to 3 inches.

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:39 am

Superb colour and texture. Good poser too! A shame about the lack of catch-light in the eye in the second one. (A case for a digital implant?).

Harold

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:31 pm

Seems as though it was looking right at me in the first image there Harold and then away and off to the right in the second. I chased this one about the lawn for what seemed to be a good long while.

One thing that puzzles me though, I only used one flash but yet there are two separate spots of light in the anoles eye, in the first shot.

Here a much closer look. One is round the other square, like a pixel.

Thanks Harold

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:42 pm

Ken Ramos wrote:One is round the other square, like a pixel.

Round=sun, square=flash?

--Rik

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:26 pm

You know Rik...

That never "dawned" on me.

It was just shortly after noon that I took this and it was out in the open on a somewhat sunny day.

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:14 am

rjlittlefield wrote:
Ken Ramos wrote:One is round the other square, like a pixel.
Round=sun, square=flash?

--Rik

No. This is major discovery in the evolution of the eye.

Soft parts of fossils do not survive but this shows that a light receptor with a pixel-like structure may go right back to the dinosaurs, remaining only in some primitive vertebrates.

The development of cones and rods was more advanced, paralleled, in modern times, by the development of film. Good luck with your doomed digital technology

Harold

jmlphoto · Post by **jmlphoto** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:25 pm

nice lizard pic i like it.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:21 am

Don't know a whole lot about evolutionary biology but I do find it to be very interesting reading or to listen in a lecture, when I come across it. Still sometimes suff like that gets over my head but it is food for thought and I enjoy it anyway.

Thanks Harold and Jordan