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Bluetongued Lizard

Jason Benz — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:11:56 +0000

This is a Blue-tongued Lizard. It ambled through our garden yesterday and took up temporary residence in the shed. Australia has an abundance of reptiles and Queensland is particularly full of wildlife.

Crocodile Chews

Jason Benz — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:39:33 +0000

This is crocodile feeding time at the David Fleay Wildlife Park on the Gold Coast. The animal park is local to us, but fortunately crocodiles in the wild do not come this far south in Queensland, Australia.

Water Dragon

Jason Benz — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:03:14 +0000

This is a juvenile Australian Water Dragon. We saw him at the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in Queensland. He can dive from trees into water to avoid birds or in this case a bridge. They are the only species of the genus Intellagama and are smarter than the average reptile. These cunning creatures adapt to the human world by hiding near lights and letting insects come to them.

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The adult Water Dragon looks like this.

Monitor Lizard

Jason Benz — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:54:32 +0000

This is a Lace Monitor Lizard we saw prowling around our campsite on our way back from seeing the Sydney New Year Fireworks. We took four days each way to go to and from Queensland and New South Wales so we had lots of time to explore the national parks and encounter the wildlife. More posts to follow.

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Mystery Monster

Jason Benz — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:21:04 +0000

Do you know what creature this is? I took the picture in the Bundaburg botanical gardens in Queensland, Australia. This was as far North as we got before we turned around to go to an interview on the Gold Coast. We are currently on the road heading for Nanango

Fractal Lizard

Jason Benz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:59:02 +0000

This is an old cropped photo of a lizard in Jamaica. It was taken with my first digital camera, a Casio EX-Z3. I do not know if this type of lizard is a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore. Please leave a comment if you know. The original image had a low resolution and was heavily compressed. Not much good for anything except it did have good outline of the lizard on a plain background. I started by doubling the resolution of the image. Normally this would not get you anywhere but then I used Fractalius which effectively redraws the image with new detail. I ran it several times to get the different parts of the lizard to look right. I then used masks on each layer to build up the final image.