Evening snack

[arash_hazeghi]

Burrowing owl with a small snack. This is an adult male we photographed with Dave Salem. Hope you like it

1DX 600 II f/5.6 1/4000sec ISO 500. handheld from vehicle

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[Loi Nguyen]

Hi Arash, love the wing position and banking, super eye contact and the prey is a great bonus. TFS. Loi

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent shooting angle great IQ and sharpness where it counts, Arash.
Beauty background.

[Sridatta Chegu]

Great wing position and excellent eye contact. I also like the legs down pose. TFS!

[John Robinson]

Oh dear ! Another gem !!
Excellent. Shots like this put us mortals off posting .
You must stop it !!!
JohnR

[Markus Jais]

Fantastic flight shot. The prey is a wonderful bonus!

Markus

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Arash great shot with lovely colors/tones and nice comp. The catch and the tilted head works very nice.
Would just back off on sharpening on the eyes , very obvious halo around the iris and outside the pupil, easy job :w3.The eye looks a bit unnatural contrasty /bright compared the the subtle sharpness /contrast of the rest . Just my 2 cents.
TFS Andreas

[Richard Flack]

Wow Arash, that is really awesome. The BG is killer and to get prey in its mouth is an added bonus. Inspiring stuff, well done!

[Steve Kaluski]

Superb Arash, great colour palette! :cheers:

TFS
Steve

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Arash great shot with lovely colors/tones and nice comp. The catch and the tilted head works very nice.
Would just back off on sharpening on the eyes , very obvious halo around the iris and outside the pupil, easy job :w3.The eye looks a bit unnatural contrasty /bright compared the the subtle sharpness /contrast of the rest . Just my 2 cents.
TFS Andreas


Thanks Andreas eye looks good to me. I didn't sharpen the eye. The burrowing owls do have bright eyes if you haven't seen one. They look like animation characters

Best
Arash

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment

[mohammad reza shahab]

hi arash
great flight shot.Excellent light and BG.very nice comp.

[Shawn Zierman]

Amazing light quality and awesome details on this speedy little owl...you excel in this area of bird photography. One consideration given the implied flight direction of the pose is too place the subject a little further to the right with more open space to fly into...would be pushing the creativity of subject placement more than you've done here imo...

[Marina Scarr]

Love this pose, bg and light, and the prey is a huge plus.

[shane shacaluga]

Another amazing shot Arash. Agree with the comments above!

TFS

[David Salem]

Another great shot of this guy. That evening was a really good shoot and the quality and color of the light was beautiful. I like the fully lit eye and the prey in the beak takes this up a few notches.
See ya soon.