Photo of the Week 8/31/09

I have fallen behind a bit on my photos of the week but not for lack of interesting photo opportunities. I had the pleasure of meeting this interesting reptile recently on a trip to the Washington, DC Area. Puff the Magic Dragon is a Bearded Dragon Lizard and actually the third I have come across while on photo assignments. Puff spends most of his time sunning himself under the heat light except when he is hungry. Here you see my hand feeding him a piece of lettuce. This was shot with my favorite lens, my 50mm f1.4, at ISO 800, 1/500th of a sec, and f2.8 using ambient lighting.