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I am Loyd Towe, professional photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon.  I have been doing photography for over 13 years and spend time traveling all around the Pacific Northwest taking pictures of the natural beauty.   

My passion is landscape photography, and I have a somewhat obsessive affection for reflections.  As a result I am always in search of still waters with a mirrored surface to point my camera toward.

My other pastime is creating and managing this blog site dedicated to helping people become the photographer they wish to be.

I didn’t grow up wanting to be a photographer.  I had no idea this was going to be my eventual destination.   I stumbled onto photography because I got a digital camera when they first started becoming popular.

Then I became curious how it all worked, so I started reading the manual and a few articles online.  Then people started appreciating my work more, so that made me want to learn even more.   Repeat that cycle several more times, and I suddenly find myself selling my work, creating online portfolios and so on.   

Now I am passing on all the stuff I have learned, both from reading and from doing.  I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but that’s good because I can help you avoid them.

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Return of the water monitor lizard

I was visiting a secondary school near the office the other day and I saw another water monitor lizard. I wrote about this species before, and I put it on my Thailand page.

I very much doubt that I saw the same animal; although it was the same size as the first sighting. It appeared in a secondary school I was visiting. I think it came from an ornamental pond, although I did not see it leave the water. The lizard entered the school through an open door and promptly climbed a staircase up to a walkway on the first floor. I heard various screams from some of the girls, but I was on duty downstairs so I did not have to go and help! The animal then reappeared to me on the edge of the balcony of the first floor. It waited there for a little while until it decided to jump down in one leap. It performed a loud 'bellyflop' on the tarmac below, and then ran off into some bushes near the building. I didn't see it again. I am surprised it could still walk after a leap like that!

So, after a few months (in August 2016) I have just seen a specimen of about 2 metres in length in a ditch in the Saphan Mai district of Bangkok. It was very shy when it saw me, but I had time to get a few photographs. Water monitor photo