Early morning, Cape Coral, Florida, I was capturing images of a female Burrowing Owl when this owlet marched out of the burrow, penguin walking to the top of the mound. It turned to face me, it's actions saying look at me. I moved my camera to photograph it noticing that the wings appeared to long for the body. It standing robot like reminded me of R2D2 of robot fame which in my mind I nicknamed it. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400 F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm
1/250 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1250 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2017
Cropped for composition and presentation
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 05-08-2017 at 06:00 PM.
Joe Przybyla
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Nice one with a good view of the feet, good background and eye contact. are you sure this is not the other adult? It looks like it's breast feathers and bars look too well developed to be this years hatch. love the R2D2 reference, may the force be with you!
Last edited by Michael Thompson; 05-09-2017 at 07:06 AM.
Yes, it looks like a wet grownup to me. I'd go for just a bit off the left.
with love, artie
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The wet/bedraggle look is really appealing and a nice departure from your previous postings Joe. Agree with Artie, a tad off the left taking it off a central position would be good.
R2D2... Burrowing Owlet
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