Northern Hawk Owl in a Dive

[Raymond Barlow]

Stoney Creek Mountain, Ontario, Canada

D300 / 200-400 VR
1/2500s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso500

I was a cool site to see this amazing bird hunting, and eating natural prey, and I was fortunate to have it only 10 minutes from my home here in southern Ontario.

[Maxis Gamez]

HI Raymond,

What an unusual pose and excellent capture. Good work!

[Alfred Forns]

Excellent Raymond !!! Great panning !!!!

Impressive image of this bird in a full dive !!! Excellent detail and sharp overall Could only wish he had turned a bit to make the eye more visible but love it as presented and sure wish it were mine !! Big Congrats !!!!

[Arthur Morris]

Quite an astounding capture. A bit of Shadow Highlight of Curves lightening might be in order. This ranks right up there with Chris Dodds diving gannet for difficulty rating...

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Raymond,
A bit of head turn would have been perfect.........but considering the degree of difficulty and everything else..........this is still stunning.

[D. Robert Franz]

Outstanding capture. A difficult image to achieve for sure. Congrats.....

[Linda Robbins]

OH! THIS IS TOO FANTASTIC....what an incredible capture. Congratulations!

[Brutus Ostling]

what to say!!!

Fantastic capture!

Congrats!

[Tony Whitehead]

Brilliant, Raymond. Love the patterns and textures.

[Jay Tan]

Really cool capture of the diving action! Although more eye contact would make this even better but it's already very amazing!

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks everyone, I would have been really happy with some more eye, but not much I can do about this., the light was pretty flat, so it would take some better ps skills then I have to help this bird look good.

[Jason Vaclavek]

Ohhh, that is just WILD! Very awesome photo!

[Grace Scalzo]

Dymanic capture, Raymond! Nice to see something so different!

[Jason Searle]

awesome capture, very well done