Rock Monitors (or Rock Leguaan / Uxamu in isiZulu / Veldlikkewaan in Afrikaans) are very shy creatures who most of the time disappear into high grass or bushes as soon as one gets close enough to take a good pictures.
But the recent management fires helped with this ‘photo shoot’. The large lizard was walking along the road when I approached with my game viewer. It immediately tried to disappeared into the ‘grass’. As the area had been recently burned, there was no new grass yet.
The Rock Monitor stopped a few times on the black soil to glance back at me, providing me with the opportunity to get this picture.
Technical data: Canon R6 with EF lens f4.0/500mm | ISO 400 | 1/500sec | f4 | ev+/-0 | 500mm | WB 6500K | AV Mode | Crop to 25% of original image | hand-held
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