A juvenile alligator, St. Andrews State Park, Panama City, Florida. Juvenile alligators have this beautiful contrast and range of colors that you can see here, which fades to being a solid, drab olive-gray color as adults. So this, in my opinion, is about as pretty as alligators get! Adults can be from around 13-19-feet, but this gator was about 4-feet long.

This photo was taken when I was testing a new lens, and the focus point is slightly off, so the photo cannot be printed very large.