No hidding place

[dennis greenwood]

One from last night after a long wait as September does see the activity slow down, no bait involved for this shot just a natural shot of the bird being curious, in fact it reacted to a slight noise from somewhere to the right of him when he hid behind the rock I was hoping he would land on...canon 1d mkiv 300mm f4 at f4 iso 800 1/500sec 155484

[Randy Stout]

Dennis:

Neat peak a boo pose. The is really neat, like the clouds! The faint lines in the bg give it a interesting effect.

The rock is a bit overpowering because of its shear mass, even though the luminosity is fairly low, which helps reduce its impact.
Just as an option, I might consider a tighter crop to play up the bird and reduce the impact of the rock. Depends on how much you want ot play on the little bird/big world theme.

Cheers

Randy

[Colin Driscoll]

Good details on the owl but that oof rock is a bit overpowering for my taste. Perhaps a tighter vertical crop? Ha! Randy beat me by that much!

[Diane Miller]

Beautiful detail in the owl! I don't mind the rock, and like both your OP and Randy's version. I would consider taking some off the top in the OP, though.

[dennis greenwood]

Thanks for taking time to comment and do the edit,
Dennis:

Neat peak a boo pose. The is really neat, like the clouds! The faint lines in the bg give it a interesting effect.

The rock is a bit overpowering because of its shear mass, even though the luminosity is fairly low, which helps reduce its impact.
Just as an option, I might consider a tighter crop to play up the bird and reduce the impact of the rock. Depends on how much you want ot play on the little bird/big world theme.

Cheers

Randy

[Randy Stout]

Dennis:

One more option, is to further lower the luminosity of the rock compared with the bird. Visually it makes the rock recede and the bird more prominent.

Cheers

Randy

[dennis greenwood]

That works ,thanks for the tip....