My best photos are here:
www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
A Misty Sunrise After A Rainy Night In Spring - Aka "Lacerta Bilineata Habitat No 4", Monteggio (CH), May 2021
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here:
www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
The theme of my gallery is - obviously - Lacerta bilineata (otherwise known as the western green lizard), but partly out of fear to bore the Flickr community with too many photos of the same subject (albeit a very pretty one as far as I'm concerned), I'll try to mix things up a little by uploading other flora and fauna from the lizard kingdom every once in a while.
That includes photos from said kingdom itself, the Lacerta bilineata habitat, which in case of our local western green lizard population consists of my garden and its immediate surroundings.
This particular photo was taken right outside my garden: in the foreground to the left you can see the leaves of the fly honeysuckle shrub where most of "my" little green dragons now reside after my garden has been overrun by my neighbors' cats; clearly visible in the center of the photo is the fence that guards the horse pasture (yes, THAT horse pasture which, as some might remember, caused me so much misery when it attracted some horse-friendly kids at the worst possible moment:
www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... ), all framed by the beautiful woods that surround our little village.
I took this shot on a spring morning in 2021 after it had been raining all night. By dawn it had cleared up, but the valley below our village had filled with mist, which started to rise as soon as the sun came up behind the mountains. I grabbed my camera and ran out of the house to catch the moment when the mist reached our village just as the sunrise sent the first rays of light through the trees.
It was as gorgeous a morning as you can imagine; the meadows were still wet from the rain, and tiny droplets of water were sparkling everywhere in the grass, illuminated by the sunbeams cutting through the trees. This photo doesn't really do the beauty of the moment justice, but I hope you still get a bit of an impression of what it was like.
Let me know if you want to see more photos of a similar kind or if I should stick to just fauna. Greetings to you a all and have a lovely Sunday!
