Confrontation! Vietnamese Lizards Face off.

[bingbongbiddley]

October 25, 2009 at 1:27 pm

Hi,

A couple of pictures from Vietnam about three years ago.

A Water Dragon and a Skink encountered each other. After a staring competition for a few moments, the water dragon whipped the skink with his tail two or three times (so fast the eye could barely see) and then the skink jumped off the curb and went around the water dragon. The water dragon looked fairly happy with himself.

He’s the same water dragon as in my profile picture.

Both taken with a Nikon D50 and Sigma 18-200mm lens.

All comments, big or small, welcome.

Thanks for looking,

Alan

[fguihen]

October 26, 2009 at 7:02 pm

i really like this, lots of detail, and an unusual scene. Id try to leave a bit more of the skink’s tail in the crop though.

[bingbongbiddley]

October 29, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Thanks a lot for the reply, fguihen.

Very unusual sicene, I think. I never saw anything like this since. It was a very exciting moment for me.

I guess you mean I should have included more of the Skink’s tail in the first one. This isn’t actually a crop – I was zoomed in for this one.

Personally I like the details in each lizards scales/skin in the first one. The focus in the second isn’t great but I included it to show their tails and the context.

Thanks again,

Alan