Calm Before

This photograph was taken this evening in the koi pond in the front yard. This leopard frog is one of about three that dwell among the goldfish and single large koi. Today after finally finding the TC-201 tele-extender, I attached it to the Nikon 180mm f2.8, giving me a 360mm f4. On the Nikon DX D40, the telephoto range would be near 500mm.
With the D40, you can attach all old Nikon manual focus lenses, you just have to meter manually. This is usually not a problem, as you can "chimp", or look at the LCD screen upon taking a photograph to determine if you need to adjust exposure.
In this case, without tripod, I wanted to use a minimum shutter speed of 125.
In order to achieve this, with the frog in shadows, I had to up the ISO speed to 1600. The result was sharp for a setting of 1600.
After this photograph, I turned on the water hose and let is sprinkle upon the frogs head. This created a nice stirred up affect, thus the next set, called The Storm.