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| Here's another shot I took just a couple weeks ago of an Ambanja panther chameleon Furcifer pardalis -- probably a lost pet -- found in Southwest Florida. I took lots of pics, and this was one of the rejects. Why did I reject it? 
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Bill Love / BLUE CHAMELEON VENTURES
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The little fella was looking away.
Anoles are like icecream.They can be sweet but,will give you brain freeze with all their strange behaviors.  All is fair in love and war.-anonymous Click on the eggs to help them hatch! 
My Pets 0.1 Dalmation/Beagle mix dog(Maggie) 0.1 Leopard Gecko(Freckles)
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looking away, not a full body picture, the leaves disract you ( although it does look cool how he appears out of the leaves), and another one for me is that I had to scroll down a bit to see his face.
1.0 bearded dragon (Drake)
1.0.1 leopard gecko (Athena and Apollo)
0.0.1 occelated skink (Zahara)
0.0.2 wood frogs (Cloak and Dagger)
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wasn't looking and the leaves were kind of blocking his beatiful color
The Anole is out 1.0.0 Anolis carolinensis (Bink)
1.0.0 Hyla cinerea (Henry)
1.0.0 Canis familiaris (Doyle)
1.1.12 Mus musculus
0.0.1 Carassius auratus
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| Everyone keyed in on the 'wandering eye', which is a constant problem when shooting chameleons. I'm always wiggling my fingers near the camera lens to get their attention and try to snap when the eye is focued on me. But they tend to keep moving their focus every couple seconds, so I have to be fast and catch it or wait 4 - 8 seconds for the next chance. Unless I want to show the range of motion of a chameleon's eye, I normally never show a shot like the one above because (to me) it signifies an impatient photographer didn't wait for the perfect view. Other comments addressed that it wasn't a whole body shot. I didn't count that as a problem because it was all too obvious that it was never intended to be a whole body shot. If 95% of the chameleon had been visible, then it may have looked somewhat distracting to not go for the full 100%. The leaves covering part of the chameleon's body do mask a very small portion, but not what I deemed enough to matter and be distracting. I actually liked them there to add to the scene that the lizard was descending down from where it was hidden in foliage. Here's the 'good' shot, with the little catchlight sparkle in the eye, that I snapped seconds after the 'bad' one above.... Thanks for commenting!
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Its amazing how eye contact adds so much more to the picture.
1.0 bearded dragon (Drake)
1.0.1 leopard gecko (Athena and Apollo)
0.0.1 occelated skink (Zahara)
0.0.2 wood frogs (Cloak and Dagger)
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| were you using a flash on him?? what camera/lenes
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Its amazing how eye contact adds so much more to the picture. Say that again. I usually can never seem to get an animals attention when I'm out shooting so I can get them looking at the camera in a shot. They either don't care or dart off...goodness its the same when I try to take a picture of a person...
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