Leopard Frog!

Wildlife are fantastic shot subjects. Unlike people, they are not something that you can just meet walking down the street while you go to buy a cup of tea at the local coffee house. Although, if you are going to buy a cup of tea, you may want to walk down the sidewalk, beings you may meet the bumper of a car in addition to fellow homo sapiens. Regardless, I think it is the mystery of wildlife that intrigues us, which is why calling zoo photography "wildlife photography" is so ridiculous. I mean, COME ON people. If you are going to go to such depths to dredge up a picture of an animal, why don't you just go over to your local taxidermist, shoot some fur there and save yourself a hefty admission fee. Please do not get me wrong, there are some fantastic shots taken at zoos by people like Joel Sartore, but please just call it what it is. In any case, a pointer that I would throw in with this is that when shooting animals is that you usually want to have the eye in focus. One time when this is not true is when you really want to give a strong impression of some aspect of the critter. For example, if this here chap was in the process of catching a fly, it could be advantageous to catch the tongue in focus instead of the eye.
On a different note, does anybody know anything about the population decline of the leopard from and other amphibians? In the past years they have faced population decline due to loss of habitat and pollution and some nasty virus that is going around, but I have not heard much of late. Anyways, if you have, feel free to post it.