crawling beauty..

canon 450d,tamron 200-500,f-5.6,1/250 sec.,iso-200,handheld at 450 m.m.
i don't know the sciemtific name for this beauty..

Love the use of the low angle here... The sharpness is fine. More DOF would have covered the body. The water drop adds to the image. TFS

Is this calotes? Lovely low angle and eye contact. Agree about more DOF. Nice clean BG.

Nice. I dont mind the blurred body , the blured foreground is a little distracting.
This is called Saap Surali in Marathi . Called Skink in English. Do you have any full body shots for id?

This is Skink. But, only on seeing the dorsal we can know the exact name.

J.C.Daniel's book of reptiles and amphibians is a good reference manual having details of snakes, frogs, skinks, angids and calotes.

I like the low angle and the eye contact. Shutter speed was less, so he could not have narrowed the aperture to f8 or higher.

Wow. lovely catch.
Not always.. more DOF is necessary.
Here nose tip and scales & design on head are good point of attraction.