Reptile Photography Contest: winner announcement

Hi there my Steemian friends and followers!

To my surprise, reptiles proved to be a bit more challenging theme for a photo contest than insects as I received less entries this time but still enough to compile an impressive winning selection ;) Thank you so much for your participation guys, I really appreciate the effort you put in this not so easy contest.

After repeated browsing through all the entries and some proper consideration I decided to choose these 5 winners:

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@sallybeth23 with this entry:

What a great competition. Here is my entry. A green iguana from the rainforest in Southern Costa Rica. I have not adjusted the colour on this guy, he really is this vibrant. His claws as you can see are pretty impressive even on this smallish one who is about 18 inches long.

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@jaki01 with this entry:

Hi, thanks for mentioning me! :) Unfortunately, recently I didn't make any nice photos of reptiles in the wild. However, not long ago we were visiting the zoo in our city where I also took some reptile pictures. As entry I choose the black-tailed python (Python molurus) below.

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@pardinus with this entry:

Thank you for this great idea and for tagging me, I would hate to have missed this one! And here goes my submission. This cool guy is a green basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons). I found him basking in Tortuguero National Park, in Costa Rica. These are the guys that can run on water for short distances, that's why they are also known as Jesus Christ lizards! For this guy, no running thow, just enjoying some relax time.

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@itchyfeetdonica with this entry:

Thanks for the mention! :) I immediately thought of this fellow seeing your contest theme! Here we go - my entry post. I spotted this iguana at the coast on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. These lizards are pretty common sights when I visited that region. Here's another one I saw as a pet on the island of Bali.

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@worldcapture with this entry:

Dude I really love your reptile collection. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of reptile shots , just a few. The little lizard for my entry was on my wall before, but that's another shot of him which I exclusively use for your contest :D Thanks for hosting and good luck to all others! Cheers :))

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...and these 5 runners-up:

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@borran with this entry:

We have two different snakes in Finland. The Common European Viper, which is poisonous and the Grass Snake as you can see in the picture. Grass Snakes aren't poisonous but they are very strong swimmers.

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@betterthanhome with this entry:

Great contest. It was quite hard to choose a photo since a got a few. This is by far the biggest reptile I´ve ever seen in the wild. This is a massive Laze Monitor which I saw in the Ben Boyd Nationalpark in Australia. As I tried to get closer for a better shot, he was getting really angry.

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@jjprac with this entry:

Anguis fragilis is a representative of legless lizards. I met this handsome guy on the road, so I took him to the grass to keep him out of the car.

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@qwerrie with this entry:

My pleasure! Thanks for mentioning. I have this right now in my pocket. The photo is probably not a superb quality, but it’s hard to capture moments like this; you just click the shutter, hoping that at least something will remain in the frame of this brisk lizard. I managed to do just one take. But what an amazing process can be seen here! I believe, many have never seen it alive: the lizard is peeling off its old skin!

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@orjantomarcelo with this entry:

Hi! I just bump over this one of reptile animal that had a snake characteristic earlier morning today while me and my friends busy gardening in garden. But I couldn’t find the specific species of this kind of snake. Maybe some of us can clarify this type of snake. Very small one but beautiful skin color.

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As promised in the original post, the winners won 5 SBI shares each, paid by me (you can check that in my wallet) and the runners-up got my full upvote on their entries.

Congratulations guys, you did an excellent job :) Hopefully, you enjoyed the contest as much as I did and I cannot wait to host another animal photo challenge soon (I already have some cool themes in my mind) so stay tuned! :)

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