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Snowy Owl - The Bigger Picture.
Sometimes having the subject smaller in the frame works wonders, such as here. Same individual and same perch as the previous image I shared, but I like this one better even though the subject is quite smaller in the frame...I love the perch and surroundings so I wanted to include more of that "agricultural" habitat.
Incidentally, can you believe this is a December 27th image? Most of what you see here should be white and covered in snow! It was like that just last week, but everything has melted away with a recent warm spell...but now the cold has returned, and soon the snow again.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/4, ISO 800, FF, natural light, handheld, lightened the eyes' irises, toned down the bit of yellow patch running behind the subject's tail.
Snowy Owl - The Bigger Picture.
It's true Daniel, this is a winner! To be honest I didn't appreciate the fence in your previous image, for me it was a human factor, almost out of place or unnatural. But in this pic, it ads drama! The BG darkness and the dried grass in the FG all work in the same direction. The contrast with the white Owl that should be in the snow closes this drama sensation I'm getting. You could have called this something like: "Snowy Owl on a browny Christmas" :)