Short-Eared Owl 2

Gallery: AvianPosted November 29, 2012300 views6 comments

Merced NWR

D800
500mm
Subject dist: 38m
1/4000 sec, f/6.3
Mode: Av
Metering: Spot
ISO: 640
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on November 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM

Well caught! I like the head on, turning view. I am not that fond of the OOF grass stems, but they do add a touch of habitat and place.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on November 29, 2012 at 3:39 PM

Nice as posted.

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Comment posted by Tom Lusk on November 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM

Those eyes just jump off the screen!

The OOF grasse/weeds don't bother me.

I'll be chasing these guys in a month or two, I hope.

Registered on September 17, 2005, 312 Posts, 600 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on November 29, 2012 at 8:25 PM

Sandy, I like the intense eye contact and the better light on the face (compared to your last one). For me, this would be a prettly lonely owl in all that blue space without the veg at bottom. I'd have left it in too.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on November 30, 2012 at 4:23 AM

Great eye contact you captured in this flight shot Sandy. Nice details visible in the large version.

Ken Archer

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Comment posted by Suzanne Huot on December 1, 2012 at 8:27 PM

I like the grasses at the bottom of the image .to me they add a sense of the Owls habitat to the image.Thhhhose large Owl eyes checking yoou out make the image .

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