TomKal foto

Driving through the bush Hans suddenly stopped and walked toward the tree. Frankly speaking I watched the other side of the "road" and initially I did not know what attracted his attention. I got out of the car and looked at the tree photographed by Hans. There was sitting in my opinion a giant monitor on it. To a man accustomed to our at most over a dozen centimeters long lizards, a one and a half meter long monitor weighing more than ten kilograms, equipped with claws of a few centimeters , can be astonishing and scaring. I think it was frightened very much itself fleeing up the tree, but for this reason I could focus on taking photos looking for "clean" frames. Some twig entered into the frame now and then and I had to look for favorable position to take pictures. To avoid changing  the lens (600 mm) I had to move away to quite a considerable distance to fit the monitor fully in the frame. The monitors  are not supposed to be dangerous to humans, except for one situation. Terrified monitor instinctively flees up a tree. If on its way it encounters  a man it may confuse him with the tree and would want to climb on injuring him severely with its long and sharp claws. And here we have a short story of yellow spotted monitor’s  gallery, practically the gallery of one shot. And let it be like that, for fear that this  one in an emergency could choose one of us as the next shelter...