Snowy Owl at Dawn

[Jim Fenton]

On the beach...a bit breezy and a few moments of light poking through the clouds yesterday morning at dawn.

Nikon D300, 500 AFSVR ~ TC14EII, ISO 800, F 7.1, 1/400 +.3 EV compensation

[Ramon M. Casares]

Different habitat than the usual and I am loving it! The light, the colours and tones, the pose, the... All!!! Congratulaitons!!! Terrific shot!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I liked the previous one a lot but this is much better. Great light, angle, pose and the setting adds to it.

[john crookes]

Grerat to catch them on the beach like that.
It seams they have moved to Stage Island Poll for the timebeing.

I do notice someting weird n the brush in front of the Owl kinda of a glow to the bush around the limbs

Maybe a mask that needs to be cleaned up around the edge

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice light, and I love the beach setting! I wish the one branch wasn't touching the owl's neck, but a great image of this species :-)

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Stunning image and composition in wonderful warm lighting. Love the pose too Jim. Congratulations on a beautiful image of this species.

[Mark Schmitt]

It's a beautiful image. There are some odd artifacts in the brush; a soft brown haze; also along the edges of the sand. Possibly from post processing?

[Dan Brown]

Aside from the strange artifacts, this could be the best Snowy Owl shot that I've ever seen! Fantastic light!! Great job Jim!! :D:D. Could the artifacts be from the wind blowing the sand?:confused:

[Stu Bowie]

Sweet light, and I love the eye contact. Congrats on a superb image.

[Juan Aragonés]

Jim this one is fantastic and I like it more than the previous one. The warm light on the bird and sand complements very well with the bluish and dark BG. The eyes are fantastic and the pose is very nice. I agree with Mark and John about the artifact around the plant stuff. When I began to se CS4 I found that kind of marks/halos when running noise reduction to a selected area. I had never had that issue with CS2 and it was dissapointing. Fortunately I realized that the effect was due to the default configuration/set-up of the masking in CS2. Hope this helps

[Ed Vatza]

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

[Massimo Grion]

Never seen anything like that! I'm in awe! Congrats!

[Raul Quinones]

Love this picture, awesome lighting. The different setting from the usual snow put this one over the top.

[Mike Cameron]

I love this image. The soft light really sets this one apart.

[Chris van Rooyen]

All's been said - a killer image!