frog inspired post

[troypiggo (Troy)]

G'day. Been a while since I took some photos. These are all frog-inspired shots - mostly small (20-30mm long) frogs from Mount Coot-Tha Botanical Gardens this morning, and also a frogmouth shot from my back deck. Click links below for bigger Flickr images.

1. Cute little fella with a nice/different pose.
2. Thought this one was interesting. Poor little guy seems to have been born without a left eye. There looks like a socket, but skin grown over no eye-ball.
3. What happens when frogs watch too much TV - they get square eyes Unusual shaped pupils.
4. Another view of square-eyes.
5. Frogmouth from back deck at home.
6. Another little froggie.
7. And another.
8. And another.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

These are very cool. i haven't seen a frog for ages.

Trev

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Cheers mate. There were dozens of them in this pond.

[zenith (Tim)]

Great photos Troy. What Camera/lens were you using?
Cheers.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Thx mate. The macros were 5DII, Sigma 150 macro lens with 68mm of extension tubes. The frogmouth was same camera with Canon 100-400L.

[REVEREND (Raymond)]

Nice set Troy. Ya gotta luv a good frog shot.

Cheers Reverend

[multiweb (Marc)]

Well, that's IOTW in my books.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Ha! I'm glad ze frogginator liked them!
Cheers.

[zardos123 (Brad)]

the frog with the square eyes is called perons tree frog, one of only two frogs with bifurcated irises, here is one in breading colours

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Awesome! Thanks for the ID and info!

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice shots, Troy!