Avain IOTW Dave Leroy for week ending 4/15/2011- Short Eared Owl

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congratulations Dave Leroy for your image "Short Eared Owl" being chosen as the Avain Image of the Week for the week ending 4/15/2011!!!

It was an incredible morning. Tthe owl insisted I take its picture. It waited until the light was right and then gave me six different perches in 4 different directions and all but one more or less frame filling and one portrait only. It took 20 minutes.

This is the first perch and i know ha is perhaps a bit tight. It was a windy morning and the owls wings would float up and down on the gusts.

7D, 500mm, f/4, ISO640.

Dave

[Steve Kaluski]

All I can say is, WOW.

Dave this is one of the best SEO images I have seen, a real corker, that eye just draws you in, beautiful.

[Stu Bowie]

Congrats on a fine image and IOTW Dave.

[Brendan Dozier]

Congratulations, Dave!

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Dave

[Doug Brown]

Congratulations Dave! Beautiful image!

[Dave Leroy]

Thanks folks. Really appreciated.

It was one of those morning and really adds credence to the idea that you had better go out because you just never know what might happen.

Dave

[denise ippolito]

Awesome image Dave, I loved it when I first saw it. Congratulations!