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Carl Day
02-20-2012, 05:06 PM
Hi All,

After months of trying I finally got what I wanted, several times in fact.

What a day!...The weather was pants up until the afternoon when the clouds finally parted and the Owl's came out to play.

Funny to see the Owl listening to the shutter going off, I could of watched him for hour's bobbing and weaving wondering what was hidden in the bushes.

Hope you like it.

Best Regards
Carl.

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p373/Grimfangdango/Short-Eared-Owl-0144_BPN.jpg


www.carldayphotography.co.uk (http://www.carldayphotography.co.uk)
arash_hazeghi
02-20-2012, 11:18 PM
this is great! nice clean perch and a beautiful BG. excellent details and light super eye contact. My only suggestion is that this beautiful image will look much better in a vertical than a square crop. you can do a perfect composition with the diagonal perch
Sidharth Kodikal
02-20-2012, 11:55 PM
Fantastic bg, perch, bird and eye contact. +1 to a vertical. Gorgeous image, either way.
Jonathan Ashton
02-21-2012, 04:42 AM
Knock out -- one to be justifiably proud of, still struggling to get a decent shot of SEO this year.
jack williamson
02-21-2012, 04:19 PM
This is beautiful. I vote for the vertical. Well exposed, sharp, great bg, great light.

Jack
pat lillich
02-21-2012, 07:58 PM
gorgeous - would also love to see it as a vertical crop.
Doug Brown
02-21-2012, 09:36 PM
<embed id="application/x-exifeverywhere" type="application/x-exifeverywhere" width="0" height="0">Beautiful bird (I've yet to get a decent Short Eared Owl image). Agree with Arash about going with a different crop. Please include your complete EXIF data along with your images.
Robert Holguin
02-22-2012, 10:40 AM
Wow!!! Beautiful image. Love the soft light, great pose and perch, and excellent detail.
Well done.
Carl Day
02-22-2012, 11:39 AM
Hi All,

Sorry but looks like I've deleted the original post by accident in replace of the below image, vertical position, hope you like it.

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p373/Grimfangdango/Short-Eared-Owl-0144_BPN-1.jpg


Canon 7D + Canon 500mm F4 IS plus 1.4 Convertor 800 ISO F6.3 1/3200sec

Cheers
Carl.
arash_hazeghi
02-22-2012, 12:11 PM
repost is excellent as a final touch I'd move the owl a bit to the right to put it sightly off-centered! I wish this one was mine!!!