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Blue dart frog

Nov 13 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

You would think I altered the color in this frog or overly saturated the image in post-processing. I didn't do either. This blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus) was photographed during my annual frog and reptile workshop in Kansas City. In the wild, they are only found in a few jungle areas in Surinam and northern Brazil which is why they were only discovered in 1969. I took this with a 50mm macro lens and a ring flash, and the lens-to-subject distance was about 6 inches. The closer the light is to a subject, the more diffused it becomes, and diffused light means contrast is at a minimum. The camera settings were 1/200, f/32, and 640 ISO. The next frog and reptile workshop is June 5 - 6.

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