Barred owl close range flight

[arash_hazeghi]

Barred owl at close range, This was made from Jim Neiger's boat. Owl was attracted using Jim's call technique (BTW I learned that I am really bad at imitating bird calls!). Doug got almost the same frame. BG is a cypress trunk

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1D4 420mm f/4 1/2000 sec. re-cropped full frame image to 16:9 pano AR.
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[dankearl]

Excellent, and the color looks perfect.

[Stu Bowie]

Arash, good flying angle, and I like the the overall detail. The BG colour compliments the owl very well. Well captured.

[Ofer Levy]

Excellent! Great sharpness and detail!

[DanWalters]

Very sharp and great details in the owl. Really like the colors in the background.

[stuart wanuck]

great flight image what can i say?

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Amazing Arash. I'm out of superlatives for your images. Suberb details, light and IQ.

[Morkel Erasmus]

You are rocking with quality posts Arash! This is a real envy-starter :bg3:.

[Sachin Saraf]

Another fantastic capture Arash...Looks like an it lost some wing/tail feathers...must be pretty old :-)

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Stunning Arash, love the sharp face and flight angle.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Absolutely superb - congrats!

[Geir Jensen]

A beautiful picture. Great sharpness and beautiful colors. Well done. Regards Geir Jensen

[Sid Garige]

You mastered the art of flight photography Arash.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Great light and detail on the underside of the wings. Looks good to me.

[Doug Brown]

Gorgeous shot Arash! You made the most of this close encounter.

[Karl Egressy]

Looks great. Excellent sharpness and details, Arash.
I'm wondering if a taped call would have worked just as well.
(I have a friend, an Ornithologist/scientist /book author who can immitate lot of birds, mostly songbirds, with amazing accuracy.)

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everyone for nice comments

Karl, I think it should work as long as you have a nice audio rig with enough power.