Snowy Owl

Unfortunately not from this year.  Our last irruption of any size was in 2011-2012, but I was going through my looking for images to meet the Weekly Challenge and thought these were singularly appropriate, so I processed one for the challenge and another for the Avian Gallery.  It's turned away from the wind in this one, but still has a pretty cold feel to me.  It's a fair crop, but even though it was a very cooperative subject, I didn't feel like I should get too close.

1D4, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, Jobu Gimbal on Gitzo legs, f/11, 1/1000, iso 400, manual exposure.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 6.2 MP before resizing.  Taken January 11th, 2012 at 10:56 AM.  Location was Damon Point near Ocean Shores, WA.

Comments and criticisms are welcome and appreciated.

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