When a friend pointed toward a small pond and said he saw a bronze frog, I thought he was talking about a metal figurine. I had never even heard of bronze frogs and certainly had not seen one before.
Bronze Frogs (Rana clamitans clamitans) are a subspecies of the Green Frog (Rana clamitans) and I must confess that I really can’t tell them apart from the other subspecies, the Northern Green Frog (Rana clamitans melanota), because there is a significant amount of color variation.
Identification aside, I really like the way that this frog is surrounded by and partially covered with duckweed as he tries to stay cool on a hot day in July.
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Mike Powell 
I’ve never heard of this one either.
Charming image.
Thanks, Laura. Although it is cool to get shots of “exotic” creatures like eagles, there is something comfortable about trying to get good shots of the more familiar birds, animals, amphibians, and insects that I see daily.
This is an excellent image. Sometimes frogs can really be hard to get in a clear and sharp focus. He really does look like a bronze figurine – wonderful shot, Mike.
Thanks. Part of the challenge for me was shooting this in somewhat subdued lighting with my long zoom lens. The lens has built-in image stabilization, but it is still a challenge to hold steady.
It looks like there might have been a bronze frog convention there — at least one and possibly more heads to the left of your star. I didn’t know of this subspecies, either.
It was a little frog pond and I suspect that you are right about there being others present in that pond.