No hidding place

One from last night after a long wait as September does see the activity slow down, no bait involved for this shot just a natural shot of the bird being curious, in fact it reacted to a slight noise from somewhere to the right of him when he hid behind the rock I was hoping he would land on...canon 1d mkiv 300mm f4 at f4 iso 800 1/500sec Attachment 155484

Dennis:

Neat peak a boo pose. The is really neat, like the clouds! The faint lines in the bg give it a interesting effect.

The rock is a bit overpowering because of its shear mass, even though the luminosity is fairly low, which helps reduce its impact.
Just as an option, I might consider a tighter crop to play up the bird and reduce the impact of the rock. Depends on how much you want ot play on the little bird/big world theme.

Cheers

Randy

Good details on the owl but that oof rock is a bit overpowering for my taste. Perhaps a tighter vertical crop? Ha! Randy beat me by that much!

Beautiful detail in the owl! I don't mind the rock, and like both your OP and Randy's version. I would consider taking some off the top in the OP, though.

Thanks for taking time to comment and do the edit,

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Originally Posted by Randy Stout

Dennis:

Neat peak a boo pose. The is really neat, like the clouds! The faint lines in the bg give it a interesting effect.

The rock is a bit overpowering because of its shear mass, even though the luminosity is fairly low, which helps reduce its impact.
Just as an option, I might consider a tighter crop to play up the bird and reduce the impact of the rock. Depends on how much you want ot play on the little bird/big world theme.

Cheers

Randy

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Dennis:

One more option, is to further lower the luminosity of the rock compared with the bird. Visually it makes the rock recede and the bird more prominent.

Cheers

Randy

That works ,thanks for the tip....