Lizardspotting made easier by special lizardvision skills!

Just some experiment on what could be done with some not-so-good image if it has some interesting composition. In it's original colouring it was nothing extraordinary apart from the way how the green lizard looked out of the brushes. So what could be done to make it more interesting?

The original image was taken with the old Olympus C2500L. Apart from that it was nothing too much interesting, otherwise it was a good, usable image exploiting the full 2,5MPx resolution of the camera neither over-saturating the scales. So it was at least a good source to work from. This one's original is 1536x1152, just shrunk down to not use too much resources and fit FA's limits.

Taking the picture was also an interesting story. This lizard is the smaller one of two lizards who I had seen engaging in a territorial fight (But of course the camera is always off when such happens! Those darn batteries and the gluttony of this photo machine...). I only took this single picture of this smaller lizard, while I was sitting right in the middle of the territory of the larger one watching him circling around me for about a hour. Good conditions, but these for one, wouldn't come nearer than about a meter, and for an other, were just too hyperactive to compose any worthy shot! These lizards, and probably almost all reptiles are rather hard subjects to take for their glimmering scales which can easily over-saturate the machine.

The specie by the way is European green lizard (Lacerta viridis).