Snowy Owl This Morning

[Jim Fenton]

Seems as though they stayed through the 80-90 degree temps this past week.

Image created this morning with a bit of sun coming in from behind me and left, solid gray overcast to the west.

Nikon D300s, 600VR, TC14EII, ISO 1250, f7.1 1/200, CW metering, NearUniWB, +2 EV

[annmpacheco]

What a stunning capture, lovely. I like the eye contact and and the snowy white detail. Glad you got a bit of light, it's a beauty.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice to see it perched on a familiar tree! very nice snowy and image.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

What a great perch and i love the way he positioned himself there. Great composition and I am glad you kept all of the tree and put him to the left.

[Ishmeet Sahni]

Love the eye contact..... the effect of the light, adds a lot to the image. Exposure is spot on.

[Marina Scarr]

Love to see a snowy in a different environment Jim. Lucky you.

[Melissa Groo]

Nice job on all counts, Jim. Really like the comp, the different setting, the IQ, the curving feet. Lovely portrait.

[Jim Fenton]

I was thrilled to get a moment of light on the bird with such a dark steely gray / blue background.......that got me excited when I saw it setting up through the viewfinder.

[Bill Dix]

A beauty, Jim. Nicely exposed and composed. Love the tree, and the eye contact.

[arash_hazeghi]

cool, I like how he is hanging on to the perch

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Lovely bird, good perch, love the foot display, eye contact. Good shooting angle for being on the top of a tree!

Amazing that the hot weather didn't encourage them to go north.

Cheers

Randy

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Jim, I always open your shots with high hopes. this one certainly did not disappoint. beautiful bird and composition. Whites looks great. some noise under the tail but a very minor issue.

I think if you work large, then there might be some opportunity to improve one pupil.

[dankearl]

Great shot with a different look to it.
It looks good on the Juniper.