This male snowy owl shot is an example of a bad shot gone good.

The owl was perched on a hydro pole and I snapped a few vertical orientated shots of him.
He caught me by surprise and took off while my camera was still in the vertical position.

To save the shot, I cropped away the wasted top and bottom of the image and formatted it to my usual 8 x 16 frame. The full width of the image is uncropped. The result is unusual, but dramatic.

Because the shot was taken at the end of the day - I reduced the cyan in the sky.

Canon 7D with the 500L lens handheld @ 1/400, f 4.5, ISO 400, + 2/3 exposure compensation.

Cheers,

Mike