A Long Awaited Reunion
I spent one summer working in Florida when I was in graduate school. With a lifelong fascination of lizards and newts, I was delighted to find little brown and green anoles running all around my apartment complex. I only had a point & shoot camera at the time — my frustrations with my lizard pictures were a driving motivation for buying my first SLR camera — which I did when I got an unexpected bonus the following winter while back in school in Virginia.
It would be over 10 years before I saw another anole, this time a green one in Mississippi. I found this fine fellow in a tree in the brutal light of a cloudless summer day. With the little lizard in the shade of the tree’s canopy, I was just able to avoid the hot spots of bright sunlight in the background and still get the image I wanted.
