Night Eye

Difficult subject @ the 1" size..and at night none-the-less.
I like the way you've use your lighting to "emphasize its nocturnal habit" as you say.
Only nit's the circular healing brush patterns you've left behind BRC from your PP? Or perhaps they're something else? Let me know??
Great entry

Still there, Howard? Thanks for the comment, but I can't find the healing brush patterns you mention. (BRC?) Would you mind pointing them out?
THANKS

UPDATE: Sorry Howard, it just dawned on me that BRC means "Bottom Right Corner." (Foggy brain this morning.) I am guessing you must be talking about those light green circles on the diagonal line just below the frog. It was raining on and off when I shot this, and everything was wet; those are out-of-focus raindrops.

The bokeh from our favorite lens (Sigma 150) also makes some circular patterns here. Hmmm... Do you think I should clone out that big round spot (some kind of bokeh flare?) near bottom center? Is it distracting?

This one made me laugh. The lighting makes him look like he is watching tv. It's a neat and interesting shot. In the large version, the eye is remarkable. Your circles of confusion also made me laugh. At first glance, I thought they were a leaf margin and thought they were kind of cool. I looked closer thanks to Howard who convinced me that they were clone marks. Then I find that they are really rain drops. This peeper doesn't seem to move very often. Keep the flare. You have something interesting going on with all of the circles in my opinion.

Very cool! The details in the eye are great. Congrats on finding this guy, they are so hard to find one they leave their birth pond.