Snowy owl or ninja?

[arash_hazeghi]

Here is another frame of the snowy owl I photographed in Ottawa with Dan. She was really performing for us! hope you like this frame


1DX 400 f/5.6 f/5.6 1/1600sec ISO 2000. handheld. owl was attracted using bait.

[John Rowell]

I'm going with a Ninja on this one. Eyes peering over the wing coupled with a little motion blur at the wings tips gives the sense of speed and the white background all put together just says silent killer image. This images continue to amaze me. I'd sure want to attend if you you and Daniel were to put together a show of these outstanding photos.

[John Stuelpnagel]

Beautiful. I love the eye contact.

[Doug Brown]

Great pose and eye contact. I might desaturate the blues a little.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Wow! You've captured a unique pose with excellent eye contact. I like your comp too. Exceptionally beautiful image Arash.

[Paul Whitbread]

Excellent image. The eye contact really makes it. The whitebalance does look a little blue.

[Robert Kimbrell]

That's amazing Arash, Hard to ask for a better eye contact,

[David Salem]

Talk about eye contact is right! Right thru you. Another solid image of this really beautiful owl. Great job Arash.

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Arash! I like the pose, wing position, details, IQ, eye contact and composition.

[Loi Nguyen]

I'm going with a Ninja on this one. Eyes peering over the wing coupled with a little motion blur at the wings tips gives the sense of speed and the white background all put together just says silent killer image. This images continue to amaze me. I'd sure want to attend if you you and Daniel were to put together a show of these outstanding photos.

same here, please count me in. Just stunning and you shot it with the old 400f5.6!

love the big round eyes and the ninja pose.

loi

[Aidan Briggs]

Great flight shot. Pose, comp, and details all good. Love the eye contact!

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everyone

I warmed it a bit to reduce the blue cast (I was lucky it wasn't -30C that day!)

[shane shacaluga]

This is superb Arash. RP is even better. I believe you have an identical pose from a burrowing owl which was also spectacular.

TFS

[Shawn Zierman]

This is an awesome flight pose with powerful eye contact. Even with feeding them, it is not easy to get this kind of eye contact from this species. I was going to suggest that you apply a slight clock wise rotation for the eyes, but it looks like you did that in the repost...which rocks.

[christopher galeski]

its all been said,one magic image.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

This is an outstanding image, the title is a killer and so is the pose :-) Love those yellow eyes!

[Marina Scarr]

Wow, it's tough to pic a fav. Looks much better without the blue cast. I think they are all contest shots, but the last one was #1 for me.

[Charles Glatzer]

I love the pose and stare.

Chas

[Holger Leyrer]

I always think it's not better and then you show another photo. Wow. This Image is stunning

[Frank Schauf]

Perfect, with great eye contact.