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Two male treefrogs; they were sitting just as in the photo. I've

seen hundreds of this species, and never seen this before. Keeping

eyes out for trouble, maybe?

Very hard to catch the decisive moment with geckos. This one was

cooperative.

Found with a lot of other shed gecko skins in a cupboard in a field

station. This one still looked animated.

I was very struck by the thumbnail; the larger version actually has less impact. I think it is because in the thumbnail, it's hard to discern exactly what the real subject is. Perhaps deliberately blurring or overexposing the leafy background while holding the tree would accomplish the same effect in the full sized version.

Found these 2 very recently hatched velvet geckos and posed them in

the field, then released them back to go on their way. "Posed" may

be an overstatement--took several photos as they posed themselves is

more like it.

This is the Australian treefrog that makes its way onto T-shirts.

This pair was just about to lay eggs, as you may have guessed. No, I

didn't get a model release, but they probably won't sue.

A classic subject, I admit, but a really beautiful time and place to

be, and I wanted to capture it. Took this exposure just as the sun

started to appear.

Where I live, most bush fires aren't destructive, just a part of the

process of renewal of the landscape. They also transform some

ordinary subjects and scenes into more extraordinary ones.

In the Mitchell Grass-Gidgee country in western Queensland. I wanted

to capture the side open space, intense red soil, intense blue sky,

occasional gidgee tree, not much alse. There's more than one tree in

this photo, thus the title.

These are an as-yet undescribed species of treefrog from the

McIlwraith Range, Cape York Peninsula, Australia. I didn't have my

usual 2-flash setup with me, but used a single SB-15, which allows

rotating the flash head so the lighting is from the side a bit. The

frogs were very good models.

There's plenty of subject detail in the original, the black space was deliberate; I like the effect of the frog suspended in a somewhat ambiguous dark space. Tried a closer crop and I didn't like the effect as well-it becomes just an anatomical representation of a frog.

The sun was low but not red yet, and the clouds moved in. Generally

threatening, but with a halo on the mountain. It felt like threat,

with a promise, and made it look like it'd be really interesting to

see what was up there.

Interesting?

The photos are from OK to quite nice, but why the pseudo-sloppily-painted edges? They are such an obviously artificial device and in some cases such as this one they draw the eye and deract from any possible appreciation of the subject, lighting, composition, etc.

I spent the morning photographing interesting patterns on this beach;

combination of black and light sand and drift/animal tracks produced

some interestign effects.

Gibber Plains are areas, sometimes vast, where the ground is covered with "gibbers", rocks that can range from tiny pebbles to fist-sized, and are so flat and compacted they resemble a pavement. They also are usually very shiny, polished by geological processes, and reflect sunlight in the purplish way captured in this image. I wanted to get the feeling of the vast space while showing how it was structured.

Nice color and general effect. I would level the horizon and would be very tempted to rubber-stamp the largest (leftmost) cow out of the picture, or perhaps better turn it around--because it is facing left it leads my eye away from the center, which is a problem.