Ballistically Projecting Rwenzori Side-Striped Chameleon

In the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains where I was searching for prime chameleon examples, I set up a temporary outdoor studio. Their ponderous movements make live chameleons brilliantly obliging animals in front of the camera, except when it’s feeding time – but I had great fun photographing this in the wild. Anything below 1/1000th of a second failed to record their ballistically extruding tongues. And it’s fascinating to watch – bodies tense and still, eyes intent, their heads recoil before they fire their gluey catapults at their prey. I never saw one miss.

Edition of 5. Museum-quality Giclée print on fine art paper, mounted on aluminium.

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