Look into my eyes....

[Josh Clark]

Another Burrowing Owl shot from my last trip to Florida. I actually cropped this into a portrait shot (envisioned this shot when I was framing it) due to the perch he/she was on. I chose to leave some of the OOF parts of the owl at the bottom because I liked the effect of the owl lunging towards. Anyhow, this was taken just before sunset. Thanks for looking and C &C always welcome.

Burrowing Owl
7d, manual, 1/400sec @ f/4, 500mm f/4L, ISO 400, manual fill flash, taken at 7:26pm.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent portrait with nice lights and composition. Loved the details.Wish you would have taken at f8 or more.

[PhilCook]

Those eyes are captivating, very clear and bright, a slightly deeper dof { smaller aperture } would of sharpened the breast feathers a little more, but the eyes are really the important draw card and they are perfect

[jack williamson]

Very sharp face and nice flash use, agree with more dof.

Jack

[Daniel Cadieux]

Quite the stare! Nice light, and processing. I'm torn on the crop though, I kinda want to see more at bottom, or trimmed to about about half the space above.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Josh, excellent detail on the face, sharp, and just love those eyes and the direct eye contact. Im with Dan, in this, I would go for a simple head portrait shot.

[arash_hazeghi]

look at that intense eye contact! well done

[Matt Boreau]

Ditto about the amazing eyes. Great picture.

[Karl Egressy]

Beautiful portrait Josh. I would leave the bottom part out and show the head, neck and shoulders only, if it were mine.