It's dark in here!

As promised, something a bit different from the Philippines. I was working out there for 7 months but very limited with the camera equipment I could bring. All I had was a Pentax MZ-5n with 50mm manual lens and a compact Canon Powershot A620 which got a lot of underwater use. The latter actually produces amazing quality prints at least to A4 size which did surprise me.

This one, just outside the accomodation block is a tokai gecko and as yet unidentified snake. Not something you see everyday! Canon Powershot, cropped by about 16% to concentrate more on the subject - I didn't want to get too close! 1/60s, f4.1, flash, ISO 100 and some minor shadows and highlights in Photoshop. Elected to leave the bit of debris on the snake's mouth - that's just how it was.

Hope it pleases
Matt

Matt,

Excellent shot of nature in action and just shows the benefit of having a point and shoot with you at all times. Interesting that both the snake and Gecko have similar markings with the orange spots, is this a local peculularity?

John

Great image and a funny title too, I like it loads.

Great capture Matt.
John
Aberdeen

Great look to those powerful coils, where's the snakes eye macro!

Great shot Matt, I bet it took him a while to get that down.

Tokai geckos always have this colouration so I'd have to find out more about the snake to see if it's some kind of predator adaptation. No macro shots of the eyes I'm afraid, this snake was already close to a lot of people where we were living so I got my shot and left it alone so as not to disturb it too much with the flash. We had a lot around us and one fell out of a tree once just as I had walked underneath it! A bit of a surprise...

Yowsers! What a shot! Perfect IMO - the 'timing' is just right, and it's a great composition too.

Michael S

Great but gruesome. Timing and composition just right. Well done.

Superb post Matt