First Light of 2014 - Snowy Owl

[Daniel Cadieux]

Something a bit different for a Snowy Owl. To complement my previous thread "Last Light of 2013"...here is the flip side - the sunrise of January 1st 2014. A great way to begin a new year, hopefully lots more to come! There was lots of atmosphere shimmer and you can see it lots here...with a balmy -25C that morning could it have been heat shimmer?? I realize the eyes are the most striking part of an owl, but here I hope you can enjoy the image despite them not being as prominent as in other images... Fun to try stuff!!

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/6.3, ISO 800, handheld, FF, the sun was burnt white so I selected from its' inner rim the palest yellow and used the paint bucket tool to fill it in with that selected shade.

[Henry Domke]

Simple and powerful, like the paintings of Mark Rothko.
For comparison, here is Rothko's "Orange Red Orange" (1961-2)

[Troy Lim]

Very creative shot for sure.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Ooo this is beautiful Dan.
Getting the opportunity to photograph these birds is one thing, but the way you use those opportunities and creatively execute a whole variety of images is thoroughly admirable and inspiring.
Awesome work

[gail bisson]

The color palette is beautiful.
Comp is just right.
I wish the owl was either in complete silhouette or that we had a bit more details on the owl around the eyes.
I really like where you are going with this,
Gail

[christopher galeski]

nice arty image.TFS.

[Richard Unsworth]

In a different league here Daniel, one of favorites ever

[Steve Kaluski]

Great vision Daniel, no worries about damaging the sensor?

TFS
Steve

[Shawn Zierman]

Creative for sure. I keep hearing the planet of the apes theme when I look at this :) Planet of the owls?

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

I love this one Daniel. Totally out of the box and a very striking image IMO.

[Rachel Hollander]

Daniel - very well done. Great vision and creativity to bring it to fruition.

TFS,
Rachel

[Holger Leyrer]

Wow. What for a fantastic image. Colours, pose, ... perfect for me.