Another Burrowing Owl

[Ramon M. Casares]

Hi, here's another Burrowing Owl take off I was able to capture the other day, hope you like it.


C&C are welcome and much apreciated!

MarkII
1/3200 sec
6.3
ISO 320
300mm f4

[Mike Lentz]

I do like it, however I think a horizontal crop would work better bud.

[Doug Brown]

Nice exposure and sharpness. A little more eye contact and less room at the bottom would improve the image. Perhaps a horizontal crop like Mike suggested.

[Patricio Murphy]

¡Excelente! (As usual) :)
I also think that some room in the direction the owl is aiming would make it even better!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Details and light are great, just a bit more eye contact would have been great.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent detail, and love the upturned wing. I agree, a horizontal comp would work better here. Still, an outstanding image, and very well captured.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

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[Kim Rollins]

Ramos -

These are fun birds to find and image. You have done well with this one.

They will not show up here for some time yet but I hope to get blind set up by burrow again this summer. I can spend hours in there watching their antics.

[denise ippolito]

Ramon, Beautiful details and exposure-nice to have a few different angles of the same species in flight!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Outstanding capture Ramon with awesome detail and flight pose. Great eye contact and I like the side view you captured in this image. Congratulations on a superb capture.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Thank you all for your kind words and suggestions, here's a repost I did giving the image a horizontal crop, I had to add sky as I didn't had any more room to the sides for this being a veetical image. I will also post the original full frame shot. Thanks again :)

[Ramon M. Casares]

Here's the full frame image...

[Lowell Sims]

I like the repost version much better. I would suggest keeping a bit more at the bottom though.