Male Burrowing Owl

[James Salywoda]

Male Burrowing Owl
Salton Sea, Salton City, Calif.

Taken yesterday morning these birds are all over the place along the irrigation ditches you can see them peeking among their burrows. I was happy to get this male out in the open.

Nikon D300 AFS 600 F4 1.4 TC

1/800 F8 ISO 200
Thanks For Looking
Jim

[Maxis Gamez]

HI James,

Love the pose and habitat. I would play with curves to make it a little darker. The composition works very well.

Excellent work!

[Rich Ikerd]

That's one mean look for such a cute little guy.:) I'm with Maxis on making the owl and the foreground just a tad darker to provide a more 3D look to the image. But other than that small suggestion, I really like the image a lot.

[Mike McCarthy]

Nice capture James. Love the "look" of the owl. Wouldn't want to mess with this one. Also like the subtle colors and warm tones of the shot. Well done.

[James Salywoda]

Thanks for the nice comments the image as posted was the colors of this males plumage it was quite a bit lighter then the females. I couldn't get any shots of them together were they both were in focus. But you can see the color differences between the two.:)

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Cool pose and look, love the extreme low angle. I am with darkening the image slightly.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Very cool pose, great angle and details. It doesn't look too bright on my monitor but it would be interesting to see a version with a bit S/H applied.

[Geurt Bloem]

Works very well for me.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

What a great image! love those eyes and warm colors.

[Fabs Forns]

His expression and pose are priceless :)

[David Hemmings]

Wow, this is sweet James, I love the pose and the angle and those colors are really something!