Wet owl, a pleasant surprise!!!

[arash_hazeghi]

So I lost my CF card slip in my first trip to WA, so I had to come home with tearful eyes :( I made a second trip to get some extra frames, but last week Tin Man Lee contacted me saying he had found my cards!!! He kindly mailed me the cards and today I downloaded the images. Thanks to SanDisk the extreme CFs had withstood extreme conditions, rain and low temperatures in over a month. All images downloaded successfully. Thanks a lot Tin Man for locating my cards and thanks SanDisk for keeping my data safe. Here is an image from the first trip, the owl's face is wet

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1D4 700mm f/5.6 1/500sec ISO 800.

[Steve Canuel]

Lucky man! And a very nice picture too. The texture of the image is nice and smooth and its good to see one of these guys a little "scruffly" looking.
:cheers: to Mr. Lee for his integrity and efforts to get your cards back to you.

[Dan Brown]

Great, Arash! That has to be a sweet feeling to have your images safe and sound!

[dankearl]

Great shot and better story!
What a small world, or just fortunate luck.
I like the wet owl a lot. The feathers look even better and a nice perch.
Kudos to Tin Man for finding them.
Remarkable!

[Manjeet & Yograj Jadeja]

All is well that ends well :)
Beautiful shot, Nice pose and detail

[Mital Patel]

so for another month we will have a great treat with Snowy's :)

absolute gem man. Thank God and Thank to Tin Man Lee for such a great favor for giving it back to you.

Cheers Mate!

[holger cremer]

lucky guy you are ;)
very nice picture would be a shame we would missed this!

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very pleased for you Arash, it must have been pretty upsetting to think you had lost images of this quality.

[Vikram Agrawal]

I love the stare and the exposure is spot on. glad to hear that you got your cards back.

[Grace Scalzo]

What a happy ending to that heartbreak. And a great image besides. Looking forward to the rest of them.

[Mike Osborne]

Great shot ot the Snowy Owl. Everyone seems to be having luck finding these beauties, we had them here 4 years in a row but not this year or last. I think they knew we were going to have a wet winter here instead of the usual snow. Great you got your cards back, I thought they would work. One of my cards went through the laundry and it still worked.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Arash! I like the pose, eye contact, wet look and composition. You are extremely lucky to get those cards and have them work.

[Mike Tracy]

Thats a wonderful look I have never seen before. Looks to be a tad on the cool side.

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everyone for nice comments

[Sachin Saraf]

Hey Arash, Congrats man.....The wet Owl definitely looks cool on that nice perch..And thanks to Tin Man Lee, we will get to see some more great snowy shots...you must be on cloud 9 :S3:

This must be the first time someone got back CF cards lost in field so far away from home...Lucky you!

[Marina Scarr]

You are one lucky guy, Arash!!!! Love the look of this one. I read something interesting yesterday about the snowies. That if it is not raining and you find the snowies' underside wet in the mornings may b/c they have resorted to chasing shorebirds as their prey.

All is well that ends well and HURRAY for SanDisk. I agree they are strong...when I consider how many times I have put mine through the wash accidentally and continue to use them without incident.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent look at this wet, grumpy looking fella.
I can imagine the relief - thanks to Tin Man and Sandisk. Those guys do make hardy cards - mine too have withstood a few washer and dryer cycles :)

[Richard Unsworth]

Great news! amazing and lucky indeed.
look forward to all these amazing pics

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful image Arash, great sharpness, details and BG.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

What a happy ending to that mishap Arash. I would have been devistated. What a beautiful image as well. I love those eyes, great exposure and the nice natural perch.

[Doug Brown]

Great news Arash!

[arash_hazeghi]

Great news Arash!


You know how happy I am ;)

[Robert Holguin]

Great to hear you got your cards back.
This image is just amazing. Love the wet look, superb feather detail, and excellent comp.
Well done and cant wait to see more.

[Christian Neumann]

Great shot, very nice!

[Geir Jensen]

A great image. It would have been sad to lose it, I know how it feels to lose your images.
Wery well done:bg3: