At the Desert Museum there is a cut away version of a frog pond and creek behind glass. It makes for spectacular water level frog photography. If you can find a clean spot in the glass that is. I keep saying I'm going to quit.. but I can't resist.
Wow - what a huge difference in thepupils of the one on the left and the ones on the right - love the reflectiosn of those big bug eyes. Please do share HOW you do this?
A bright sunny day too. They must have been eating flies off the Jimson Weed (a powerfull hallucinogen). lol The Arizona-Sonora Deseert Museum has a large glass front exhibit that replicates a shallow desert mountan stream with pools. At one end of the exhibit the glass bisects the stream and pool allowing one to shoot photos of the frogs at water surface level and even below surface level by simply squatting on the other side of the glass :) All of my leopard frog photos were taken in this manner.
Most of my toad photos were taken the hard, wet time consuming way in actual mountain streams. It's just a matter of finding a 2-5 foot drop in the granite near a pool or portion of the stream or finding enough space to get prone. Water in these mountain rills seldom lasts in significant volume for more than a week or two without steady precipitation so it is fascinating to watch the different species of amphibians and arthropods rush to breed and mature before the water disappears again.
Thanks. I was sort of bummed about these. IIt got cloudy on me. In trying to maintain some depth of field to keep everyone in focus tho over all quality suffered. I really liked the "Family Story" too :)
I never knew there were so many different frogs and so many wonderful ways of photographing them!!!! I am pleasantly surprised as I feel as though I had a tour with the National Geographic!
All Southern AZ species. Forgs and toads in the desert..What next? Fortunately I have not seen any sign of the virus that has caused so many problems for amphibians internationally in recent years.
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