One of the highlights of the Indonesian photo tour was photographing Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world and a direct link to the age of the dinosaurs. They live primarily on three islands in the Indonesian archipelago, and they are prehistoric and definitely intimidating. The giant reptiles are low to the ground, and to really convey their power I had to shoot from as low an angle as possible. I wanted to capture their flickering tongue as well as their musculature as they moved over the ground, and I did that with a 100-400mm lens to compress perspective (as well as to keep a safe distance). I shot at 10 frames per second to capture the tongue at full extension. This picture shows a dragon on the beach, but they are also inland. As you hike on the trails, you have to be careful to watch for them at all times. My settings for this were 1/250,f/8, 125 ISO.
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