Owl at sunrise

[Richard Unsworth]

Well I keep up the pressure, though I have to deal with less than satisfactory light.
Every day brings unbroken sunshine from dawn to dusk. The Owl was ouit bright and early surveying the area from on top of the Oak stump

1/1000 f5.6 ISO 800 Manual Exp HH
Processed CC and Topaz

[keith mitchell]

Richard your best yet IMHO it looks spot on! excellent feather detail and a super BG and lovely light makes a great image. Very well done

Keith

[gail bisson]

Nice BG and I like the side lighting.
I would like to see this as a landscape with a lot taken off the bottom to minimize the size of the perch.
Nice IQ.
Gail

[John Robinson]

Good one Richard.
Must agree the crop has me thinking too. Can't make my mind up. The stump does seem to dominate but thats the way it was .
Cheers
JR

[Richard Unsworth]

Heres a quick horiz cropped from jpeg and canvas added, so you can see the horiz suggestion quickly
too late to redo from the cr2 tonight, but should get the idea. The OP was cropped from horiz so plenty to work with later

[Steve Kaluski]

The RP works for me Richard, agree one of your best and in a natural setting too, just perhaps drop the Blue a bit.

TFS
Steve

[christopher galeski]

nice image,like the repost,looks like he or she is in deep thought.

[keith mitchell]

Richard came back for another look and still go for the original post but it's very interesting to see others points of view.

Keith.

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks all, still some difference of opinion on the crop - doesnt bother me too much I can enjoy both!

Posting a horizontal from the raw today

[Karl Egressy]

It's interesting to see the different crops. Very nice capture and a nice looking owl you have, Richard.