Another Lizard Picture; Or, I Still Love My Camera
Posted 16 September 2008 in Random Photographs by Catriona
Sometimes, when they want to catch the breezes as well as the sun—and who wouldn’t, on a horrible, hot day like today?—the water dragons scramble up into the cat’s claw that covers what used to be a yukka, until it flowered:
These vines aren’t actually resting on anything but themselves, and it amazes me that the dragons are willing to rest their weight on something that must rock alarmingly under them.
I think the advantage for this one, which is the smaller of the the two current dragons, is that while he’s up here, the bigger one can’t chase him around the garden.
(Also? I love the zoom function on this camera.)
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Matthew Smith wrote at Sep 16, 03:42 am
I’m pretty jealous of your camera. When mine was stolen I decided to find out what all these SLR purists were on about and bought an entry level DSLR (Pentax K100D). It’s a great camera and gives a lot of control (that I maybe shouldn’t be allowed to have) but I miss the 10x zoom (you need to buy any special lenses on SLRs) and I miss being able to hand the camera to someone else and be confident that it will just take the photo. Even though my DSLR is theoretically point and shoot, in practice, you have to know how to hold it and I always forget to put the flash back on auto (since I usually shoot with flash off and in manual mode).
Say hi to the lizards for me. Our dogs make sure that nothing that cool can live in my yard.
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Catriona wrote at Sep 16, 03:46 am
On the plus side, your dogs should also make sure that it’s less likely that your current camera will be stolen.
Swings and roundabouts.
This is an awesome camera—I’d recommend it, if you’re in the market again. And you can buy fancy lenses for it—Nick has one—you just don’t need to.