Burrowing Owl

[Jim Crosswell]

This was shot in Florida in 2009. It is a crop of a horizontal image. All C&Cs are appreciated.

Canon 40D
100-400L
ISO 400
320mm
f/8
1/320s
handheld

[Stu Bowie]

Jim, he sure is focussed on your presence, and I like your low angle of capture. Good overall detail, and I like the softer colours in the BG.

[allanrube]

I like how you got the feet too. The feet are often hidden in grass.
I would increase the saturation a tad if it were mine.

[Rob Miner]

Jim - Great capture. The only suggestion that I might share with you is: In PS you might try refined edge or just edge sharpening.

Rob.............

[Chantelle Voss]

Excellent photograph, thanks for sharing! Great composition, I love the details on the legs, never seen this on a photograph of a Burrowing Owl. Hopefully the Burrowing Owl populations out here on the West Coast start to improve, thankfully a lot of awareness has been raised.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice. These guys have alot of personality! I too like the complete view of the legs and feet. My eyes keep going to those two white flowers. I do like the grasses though...nice touch. I'm thinking the image would have benefited from some fill-flash. Did you think of taking some original vertical at 400mms too?

[Aidan Briggs]

I love the soft light, pose, and grasses. I agree that the flowers are a bit distracting, that's the first thing I noticed after the bird. If it were mine, I would tone them down or remove them, but that is just my preference. Well done!!

Keep them coming!!

[Mark Young]

Love the low angle with the bird staring directly at you.

[Jim Crosswell]

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions. I am not on my good computer to make some of the changes right now. I will do it tomorrow morning and repost. Daniel I did some vertical shots but I liked this one was the best. So I cropped this one to make into a vertical because the feet were showing and he was facing me.

[Jim Crosswell]

Here is a repost with the flowers removed.