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Published: 2014-08-03 16:39:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 656; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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Green lizard on a green leaf surrounded by the lush green tropical jungle of Singapore.Related content
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Beautiful lizard, wish they lived here. Nice composition!
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Thank you for the kind words.Β
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Thank you. iut was the only one of about 25 shots that was worth showing anyone.
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LOL...shot from that angle, those guys look terrifying!!!Β
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I'm not sure, I didn't take the time to look this one up.Β The name does seem to fit.
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Thank you for the kind words. I am honored. :")
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Now that sounds fun. Β Exploring a jungle. Β We don't really have those here. Β How'd you get so close to this little guy?
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I was about 7 or 8 feet away...that's shot with the 400mm lens. 
and it is a jungle, but not like a WILD jungle; it's more like a city park. Well groomed pathways and so many people around.
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So you stalked from afar...lol
Oh so it's not like the middle of the Amazon wild...gotcha. Β
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well...I didn't actually see him until I got too close to him and he jumped from a branch about 6 inches from me...scared the hell out of me!Β After that, he kept me at a distance. Every time I moved closer, he'd move away.
So yeah, I guess I was stalking him.
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Good camo on him then if you didn't see him so close to you. Β We have little blue tailed skinks here, fast little buggers, and not horribly common. Β Outside of snakes thats the only reptiles we have.
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Wait. You live in Virginia, right?
I suspect you've got a lot of reptiles who work in DC living in Northern VA.Β
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Yea, in Norfolk. Β ANd yep...you're certainly right...lmao.
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lol...I heard they can grow to a fairly substantial size. This guy was pretty small, but with the long lens, I was able to get 4 or 5 good shots (out of 95 or 100 shots taken 
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LOL...that's a great story!Β
that's how my wife's cats always treat me!Β
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I've never had nine at any one time; 5 was the most (or was it 6?
I used to have a cat who loved the snow and cold and during the Winters (in Upstate NY) she'd stay out for a day or two (or more) at a time and hunt for some of the barn cats and stray cats in the area. We rented a house on a large farm, so we were surrounded by fields and pastures and woods.Β
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I understand that. And I know Ovid; I've driven through there a number of times.Β We were in Newark Valley, then Port Crane; down closer to Binghamton.
and yeah, cats are surprising animals.
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LOL...yeah, time certainly does fly.
I was working in Binghamton starting in late 1986. I lived in Gilbertsville, a small town farther North and East of Binghamton. Great place, good time.
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so your Dad ran moonshine?! Β Cool!
You may have come thru Gilbertsville. It isΒ on SR 51(I think?),Β about 15 miles or soΒ North of Sydney, NY (which is off I-81).Β
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My wife lived in Mobile for a time while I was in the Army stationed at Fort Rucker, AL. We were dating then and I drove those back roads more times than I can count.
Dark, narrow, no lines...dangerous as hell; but truly a rush driving them at 80, 90 or faster. Out driving your headlights and praying nothing was in the way.
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Well...I did get all four wheels off the ground one night when I forgot about a set of railroad tracks on a raised berm just after a 90 degree turn that I took at waaayyy too high a rate of speed.
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Well, no immediate damage...and the frame had already been bent when I ran it up and over a curb driving home from a night out. :">
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Yeah.
I used to have those nights quite often.
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Well, for me it's not that I'm violent, just stupid.Β And there are sooooo many ways to be stupid.
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yeah...I hadn't had but three beers in the three pears preceding the trip to Singapore, but drank more than that two or three times a week for most of the trip.
Spent a lot of money that I probably shouldn't have...but beers were $15 / pint at the places my colleagues liked to drink, sooooo....
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Yeah, that's what I thought....but I still paid it.
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Exactly. And the folks I worked with were fun to hang out with, so it was worth it, I think.
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