Little owl

[Danny Laredo]

For a long time I have been waiting for a decent Little owl flight image.
Today I went to an old abandoned quarry not to far from where I live.
I knew there were little owls there but finally I got a flight image to be happy with.

MKIII 500F4+TC x1.4 ISO320 1/2000 F7.1




All c&c welcomed.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful shot, just wished for more eye contact, still loved the focus and the feel of this.. congrats..

[arash_hazeghi]

Intense yellow eyes! well done.

[David Fletcher]

Great light in this Danny. Like the tight crop and intensity of those eyes. WD!

[Mohanram Kemparaju]

Brilliant, the eyes are hypnotic;)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pretty cool, I like the angle, stare and complementing BG. If it were mine I might lighten the parts of the eyes that are not sunlit.

[Arthur Morris]

SH with great light. Is this full frame? I too wish that the bird were staring right down the lens barrel....

[Connie Mier]

A more than decent shot, I'd say. Well framed and agree with comments above concerning eye contact.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Artie's preferred HA would've made this an award winner. Love the tight comp and DOF with perfect focus on the eyes. Very well done!!

[Keith Bauer]

HA or not, this is a killer image. Not easy to get one of these guys in flight at all, let alone this head on shot. Nicely captured.

[Adrian David]

I agree, this is a killer shot! Not perfect, but a killer...I love those eyes, they really are hypnotic.

[Danny Laredo]

Thanks for the comments.

Artie, this is not FF but close to it.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Danny. You did a nice job with the crop.

[Peter Wallack]

I agree with the most positive critiques already here.

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

The eyes are amazing! I have a very similar picture of a White-eyed Buzzard, will post it sometime. Congrats for this fine image.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Great eye contact here. Love the warmness of this image.