Goanna

Lace Monitor, Varanus varius | Fuji X10 | Brisbane Forest park, April 9, 2012 | flickr

Lace Monitor, or Goanna, is a biggest lizard around Brisbane. It is about half a meter long without tale. The picture was taken on Simpson falls picnic area. On this day we spotted three goannas in this area. The lizard on the top was not scared of people and passed just a couple meters away from the place we stayed. Kids were quite scared when they saw "the dragon" walked towards them :)

The picture was taken with Fuji X10, cropped on the top and bottom, and resized. I applied blur on background in order to reduce the image size. It didn't help much, so the image was saved at low quality. As usual, unedited 100% crop from the original JPEG is below. Tech: iso 100, F5.0, 1/600 sec.

100% crop from the original image