Valentine's Day Burrowing Owls

[Daniel Cadieux]

Appropriately enough this cute couple cuddled together for us on Feb. 14th. Seems Cupid was busy with the birds too:). Taken during Artie's IPT last week.

Canon 40D + 100-400L @300mm, aperture priority, evaluative metering, 1/125s., f/6.3, ISO 800, +0.7 EC, natural light (late afternoon overcast), handheld.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w98/dancad/tn_BurrowingOwl_8553-01.jpg

[denise ippolito]

Daniel, Really lovely-the pose and eye contact are just super! I love these little guys-exposure and details look great too!!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great details and soft light, the interaction makes it really special.

[Doug Brown]

What a cute couple! I love those big pupils. I might sharpen the head of the bird on the left just a tad.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

A beautiful pair. Nice job getting it so sharp hand held at that speed. You really caught them at the perfect moment.

Randy

[Ramon M. Casares]

Very nice scene, love the atitude of the birds and the light as well as the dteail, respot looks good but I like them both. COngratualations!

[Graham Smith.]

Great Shot Daniel.
Repost is good, but looks a little muted to me. prefer the original post.

[Stephen Stephen]

Dan very nice capture. I prefer your original post.

I take it that this was a life list addition.