Karen Chen, of the United States, competes in the women's team free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, February 7, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)

Devotees of Santa Muerte visit her shrine in the Tepito neighborhood on the eve of the Day of the Dead in Mexico City, Mexico on October 31, 2022. (Photo by Gustavo Graf/Reuters)

Indian actress Ananya Panday poses for pictures on the red carpet on the day of the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant in Mumbai, India, on July 12, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

Participants wearing colorful costumes take part in the Flowers Parade of the 151th annual Carnival of Nice, in Nice, France, 20 March 2024. The annual Carnival of Nice run from 17 February to 03 March 2024, and the main theme will be “King of Pop Culture”. (Photo by Sebastien Nogier/EPA)

Drag king Riss Obolensky performs as drag king Norman Creebs during the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London, Britain, on July 8, 2024. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Reuters)

People walk on the 'Swiftie Steps' ahead of a Taylor Swift concert, following the cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna because of a planned attack, at Wembley Stadium in London, Britain on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)

A surfer walks by as starfish cling to a pillar of UC San Diego's Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier in a negative tide during the King Tides which are the year's most extreme high and low tides on December 6, 2025 in San Diego, CA. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

“Scott Linstead is an internationally published, freelance wildlife photographer/writer. His clients include Natural History Magazine, Hewlett Packard, Ranger Rick Magazine and a number of wildlife publications in North America and Europe. Scott's column on the techniques of bird photography appears in every issue of Outdoor Photography Canada”.

Photo: A veiled chameleon extends its tongue to catch a cricket. Canadian wildlife photographer Scott Linstead, formerly an aerospace engineer and high school teacher, uses a device called Phototrap “to not only photograph the elusive, but also the unimaginably quick”. (Photo by Scott Linstead)