Theme: Northern Hawk Owl.

[Karl Egressy]

As the name suggests this species lives almost exclusively North of the USA/Canadian border and rarely comes down as far South as Southern Ontario.
Old image, new PP work. (Not much really)
Thanks for looking and commenting.

Canon 40D
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS
ISO 400
1/200 s
f7.1

[Randy Stout]

Karl:

Nice eye contact, effective perch. I might consider moving him a bit to the left in the frame.

Cheers

Randy

[Karl Egressy]

Karl:

Nice eye contact, effective perch. I might consider moving him a bit to the left in the frame.

Cheers

Randy
Thanks, Randy.
I already did as it was a fully centered vertical shot.
But now I moved it even further to the left and added some more canvas to the right.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot Karl I like the pose and the eye contact I did wonder about cropping off the base to where the smaller diagonal branches are but on refection I think it looks just fine as it is. The colours and exposure look excellent, the bit of stick coming out behind the tail does not concern me at all.

[Marina Scarr]

That's one heck of a frame, Karl, and I simply LOVE that perch and the snow adds so much. The pose is great and I am envious I have never even seen one of these!

[dankearl]

Repost with comp suggestion works for me. The species is gorgeous, very nice look at one.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Karl this works on all counts !!!!!
The RP has taken it up a slight notch .
Good work in capture and very nicely processed .

TFS Andreas

[John Robinson]

All been said. Near perfect and a great facial expression to boot !!
Good stuff
John

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Like everything about this image, Karl. The expression is wonderful.


Geoffrey

[adrian dancy]

A standout bird...nicely imaged and doing the bird justice with its superb pose.

[Glenn Conlan]

Another great shot Karl the log and snow really add to a great capture

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet shot Karl, love the snow, the perch and the nice pose. this is one of your best from this bird

[David Salem]

I agree, your best one of this bird. The eye contact and the nice perch make this one a winner for me. Well done Karl

[keith mitchell]

Karl just moving the bird over to the left a tad puts icing on the cake to what is a superb image as posted, very well done.

Keith.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Karl! I like the pose, IQ, exposure, details and composition in the repost.