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    Ken Watkins
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    Just for a change, taken in Makola NP, Northern Cape South Africa.

    I needed to get out of the car for this and needless to say someone came along.

    EOS 1D MkIIn (bang goes my WPTY entry) 28-300mm at 300mm, F7.1, 1/1600, ISO 400, EV-0.33

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    Ken, good sharp detail on the little guy, and love the curled tail. Lovely contrast in colours between the chameleon and the sand. Well captured.

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    Love the colours and the curving pose and especially that it seems to be keeping an eye on you. I even rather like the bit of stick. The markings are beautiful. If I could I would wish for the front of the head/eye to have been further illuminated to really bring out the detail there, but that's not something that jumped out at me (and of course it might have required a second sun!). Well worth getting a telling off - assuming you meant the someone who came along was wearing a uniform.

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    Certainly different Ken, with striking colours:)

    Guess you couldn't creep up with those eyes. :D

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    Hi Ken ... I guess that animal does not depend on stealth :)

    Would only take the one stick intersecting the tail !! Love it !!

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    Beautiful contrast of colors here Ken, nice and sharp also, with good detail in the skin.
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    Excellent image Ken , lovely colors and nice details , agreed with Alfred here
    TFS

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    Really like the vibrant colors. Nice capture!

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    Ken,
    I like it. We have similar ones in India, albeit with a deeper colour.

    Mark IIN and WPTY entry. :D:D Only 10MP camera allowed. :D

    Cheers,
    Sabyasachi

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    excellent image...

    that always happens to me ,the minute i open the door a couple of inches ... someone comes along:D

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    Thanks for all of the kind comments and suggestions, I missed the intersecting stick! The car coming along did not contain a uniformed person, strangely the game warden there uses a motor bike!. But I have been reported by other travellers before so no chances taken, I was intending to lay on my belly (not that that would get me very much lower) I had to make do with kneeling.

    What puzzled me is that it was green with no attempt to change colour crossing the road. The last one I saw this close changed colour walking up my arm!

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    This one is worth getting in trouble for!
    1D MkIIN rules. (I am waiting for all the 1DMkIIN wannabee WPTY entrants to sell theirs so I can pick a 2nd one up cheaply:)).
    Well captured, Ken, while keeping an eye out for dangerous lifeforms sneaking up on you, like the sharpness & pose, only noticed stick because of comments.

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    amazing creature, just look at the texture and colors!!!
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