Burrowing Owl in the Sweet Light

[Doug Brown]

Here's a photo from the other morning. There are baby owls all over the colony. This parent was watching over the area from a slightly higher vantage point to ensure the safety of its family.

Canon 1Dx, 600 mm + 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/800, ISO 800, manual exposure, hand held

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Doug - Beautiful light and complementary bg colors. Love the big eyes staring right at you. Nicely done.

TFS,
Rachel

[Satish Ranadive]

Doug Sir,
Gorgeous image with beautiful colour pallet. Rest as usual superb.
Love the alert expressions in his/her eye.

Regards,
Satish.

[John Stuelpnagel]

HI Doug,
Really sweet background! And love how the bird is isolated.
-John

[gail bisson]

Doug, This is my dream picture of a BO. Perfect light, direct gaze, high perch that allows for a great BG.
Excellent comp with perfect placement of the owl in the frame.
Just love this one !
Absolutely no nits from me!Would be thrilled to have this in my files.
Gail

[keith mitchell]

Cannot be far from perfect ,it's got everything.

Keith.

[Richard Flack]

Hi Doug, Awesome light, beautiful BG, cool perch and great subject. Cant really find anything to complain about :). Great work!

[Glenn Conlan]

Very nice Doug with super light. We only had a few days with our owls which have now disappeared, glad you have so many to work with, hope to see more of your images.

[Karl Egressy]

Love the pose and stare and the complimenting background, Doug. Beautiful image.

[Doug Brown]

Thanks everyone for the comments!

[Mike Poole]

Sweet light indeed Doug, no nits at all from me

[David Salem]

I liked this when you first sent it to me and I like it even more looking at it again. The light is perfect and the pose on that cool perch and those perfectly lit eyes make this one special. Well done and I'm glad you found a nice colony of birds to play with.
I might have to come to AQ to shoot with you now:) See ya Soon

[arash_hazeghi]

Gorgeous man, wish this was mine!