A Lizard's Lunch

Mark Langford, Mark Langford Photography

Mark Langford is a professional photographer who covers everything from food displays and shrimp boats to history, construction cranes and aircraft. Mark is also a first class amateur meteorologist who operates his own weather web site. He also runs an ozone web site that has made very accurate predictions about the arrival of polluted air over his region. Editor.

The lizard in Fig. 1 is a Texas spiny lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus). Shortly before this photograph was made, the lizard caught a red wasp in midair. If you look closely at the lizard, you'll notice the wasp in the lizard's mouth as it prepares to swallow it whole.

The photo was shot with a Canon EOS 20D through a 300 mm lens at 1/40 second at f4. More images of this lizard are here.

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