This young Snowy Owl leaves a little gift before taking off. This is a common behaviour seen in Snowy Owls and other species before flight.

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens handheld @ 1/800 f4, ISO 400, +1 1/3 exposure compensation.

The sun was low on the late afternoon winter horizon.

I'm getting old, my knees are in terrible shape, and the bulky winter clothing which I'm not used to yet this season destabalized me while getting this low shot. This caused my horizon to be off.

I had to crop a bit to correcet my horizon. Even after correction, it still could use some tweeking.

There is no particular framing size after crop and horizon correction because I doubt I'll frame this one for exposition :-)

Cheers,

Mike