Just a fun image from the Alligator Farm Might be the same animal Cindy posted? This is a Croc Not much light so I had to use a very slow shutter speed
Canon 1DsMk2
500 f4.0 IS 1.4X
f 22 1/15 sec
ISO 800
Av -1/3
Grin isn't the first thing I think of when I see those teeth. Excellent work, especially with the light. I wish I had had a photo like this one yesterday. I gave a talk to a bunch of 7th graders and showed them dozens of bird photos. I interspersed a couple of pictures of my dog and a photo of a bull gator. Those were the photos that got the big reactions. Yours would have been a tremendous hit.
Hi Alfred, this might be the same critter. He does have a similar tooth structure, but I think the snout is different. My guy was in the rookery area near the boardwalk.
Love the point of view here and wide open mouth! I only wish I could see the other eye, too.
Just think, this is the last thing you would see in the wild (if you were an animal) a second before you went down the hatch! I think the most they could do to a human is twist off a leg or 2 :)
Cool image Alfred and you chose your DOF well. If you would have moved just slightly to the right so that you would face it exactly head on, making both eyes visible and creating perfect symmetry, this would have been even better IMO.