Barred Owl from Lake Blue Cypress

[Doug Brown]

From Lake Blue Cypress. Jim Neiger sure knows how to find owls!

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Canon 1D Mark IV, 500mm, f/5 1/3200, ISO 640, manual exposure, hand held

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

Excellent pose and angle in frame to show both sides of the wings.
Sharp, well exposed, pretty good DOF.

Framing wise, perhaps a bit tight for my tastes.

Cheers

Randy

[Norm Dulak]

Doug:

Great subject, sharpness, composition and background. Well done, as usual! :S3:

[Harshad Barve]

Terrific image with great light , wing pose and BG , Excellent
TFS

PS , PM sent to you are getting bounced back :S3:

[Troy Lim]

Love the shot..BG is killer for sure.
Just scream out 'who cooks for you..." the owls will come out..:S3:

[Craig Brelsford]

I'd like more eye contact, but one can't have everything. The dead-on exposure is particularly impressive.

[Stu Bowie]

Jim Neiger sure knows how to find owls! .... and you know how to get the perfect shot. Good flying posture Doug, sharp, and just love the feather detail. Cool BG too. A slight turn of the head would have been great. :w3

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent Doug love the pose and details!

[Doug Brown]

A slight turn of the head would have been great. :w3

No doubt about that Stuart. I picked this frame because it had the best wing position and nicest BG. Unfortunately, the owl didn't make eye contact in any of the images in this flight sequence.

[Arthur Morris]

This one is about as good as it gets for all of the above reasons. I am fine with the framing and love the wing position and the sharpness. Is the BKGR as is out of camera. It looks very sweet.

[Doug Brown]

Is the BKGR as is out of camera. It looks very sweet.

Thanks Artie. I removed a small brown area or two, but otherwise it's true to the RAW file.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks; it looks soft and lovely.

[Robert Hardy]

THIS is a stunning shot almost 3d like too.
Rob

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice pop here Doug Bhai, loved the DOF too.. sweet looking bird this.. TFS

[Doug Brown]

Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone.

[Hendri Venter]

Cracker Doug. A brillimat Fligh shot.