Short Eared Owl

[William Dickson]

Canon 5D Mk3
f/4 500mm with 1.4
f/6.3
1/3200
ISO 2000

My wife and I arrived on South Uist, Outer Hebrides, late yesterday afternoon and it has mostly rained since we arrived. :e3 We went out early this morning for a drive about, when she spotted the owl hunting on grasslands in front of a loch. I parked the car in a passing place and managed to get a few shots. It's to be sunny for a while tomorrow :S3:

Thanks for looking.

Will

[Randy Stout]

Will:

Hope you do in fact get some useful weather on your trip.

Nice small in frame composition, excellent display of dorsal wing surface. Well exposed.

The area around the tail seems rather soft.

Cheers

Randy

[John Robinson]

Hi Will. Well done!. Nice to have a co-operative missus! Hope its drier for you than it was for me. I used to know the warden on Uist many years back. Very nice man. Mind you they were in those days !
Cheers
John

[adrian dancy]

Excellent banking image William. I hope you get the desired light tomorrow.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent flight shot.

Regards,
Satish.

[keith mitchell]

Looks pretty good to me Will, hope the sun shines for you.

Cheers Keith.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Will, great banking angle, intense stare below, and nicely separated from the BG. Hope the weather will be kind to you.

Not shooting with the 1D Mark IV ? :w3

[William Dickson]

Thanks guys. Appreciated

Hi Stu, still getting the hang of it, and it was a wee bit dull last night, thinking ISO :w3

Will