It couldn't get any worse...

[Steve Kaluski]

On reflection I should have posted this first, as a few of you have already seen it, especially the larger version. This also conveys the weather better I feel too. I know some will prefer some off the top, but that might cut down the rain effect, plus I do tend to leave room above for outside usage too.

Steve
Subject: Snowy Owl saturated in rain on drift wood (Bubo scandiacus)
Location: BC, Canada
Camera: Canon MKIV
Lens: 500f/4 + 1.4x - Gitzo tripod/Wimberley head
Exposure: 1/200s at f/5.6 ISO800 +1/3 stop compensation
Crop: Slight crop (original capture vertical)

[D. Robert Franz]

Looks miserable for the bird and the photographer. Nicely composed shows the rain. I love it....

[Jack Breakfast]

hey now, that is one lovely image. i'd give it a slight rotation to the clockwise? maybe?

[Jonathan Ashton]

I suspect it is an illusion, I think it is the log which is not lying horizontally. I like the composition and I think it is a superb image.

[Jack Breakfast]

I have changed my tune. Rotating the image would be folly. J. Ashton has once again cleared away the cobwebs

[Alan Murphy]

Poor baby! Nice detail and I like the rain streaks.

[Andrew Merwin]

A great image Steve. I like the rain & the look of the owl. I assume that the owl's miserable mien is a reflection of the photographer's.

[Morkel Erasmus]

The rain streaks add a lot here Steve. Nicely exposed and composed.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet I like the rain! one wet owl :)

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great pose and colours.

[christopher galeski]

nice image,nice exposure,good detail,well done.

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely image Steve. really carries forward the wet, winter environment. Nice and sunny today and a few owls still around. Another fellow and I hooked up and went to another spot. No interesting poses and a couple SE'd owls were disinterested as well. It would be fun to get together next year and Jamie too.

Lovely detail in this one.