A burrowing owl chick testing its wings. He seemed so pleased with his new skills although he hasn't really been able to fly anywhere yet other than jumping straight up in the air. Surprisingly, the chicks all have bands, but they are wild and free.
1DX Mark II
400f4 DO II
1/4000
f9
ISO-2000
HH
I knew it would be hard to nail the focus right on the bird with them jumping every which way, so I went for F9. The 1DX II is a dream machine. If I don't get good enough images with it, then it is clearly operator's errors.
I cropped pretty tight on the left because there was half the back of another chick. Cropped to 16:9, took some from bottom and right and rotated slightly.
Thank you for your comments.
Loi







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) pose from the little owlet, what an experience it must have been to witness this! Well exposed and some wonderful detail, great (and natural looking) colours on the subjects, killer BG. Nice DOF by the way, good techs indeed, quick thinking out there in the field.

