Everyone who has shot Snowys has the shot of the owl in broad daylight; many shoot with hard noon light and maybe even using full flash and formatted with the whites balanced to pure white.

But it’s nice to get off the beaten track and try some extreme stuff, like this Snowy Owl shot..

By the way, the –2/3 compensation may look like a little unusual for a shot in extreme low light, but remember that there is a huge setting sun to the left and my goal here was not to blow out the image as the owl flew in front of the setting sun.

Canon 40D with 400 f5.6L lens, @ 1/640, f9, ISO 400, - 2/3 exposure compensation, cropped for composition purposes.

And yes, despite being all fired-up, it was still cold as hell!

Cheers,

Mike