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Snowy Owl - The Elusive White Knight

A rare opportunity for me, thanks to a good friend, to capture on camera an almost totally-white male Snowy Owl. As a bonus, I was accompanied by two old dear Snowy photography friends. And yes, it was freeking cold and windy out there. The location of the bird must remain confidential at my friend's request.

My Snowy Owl photography, as indeed all bird photography, is unfortunately on the decline due to increasingly painful and unstable knees and an ankle which is reducing my mobility. I guess it's life's way of telling me to slow down. But I couldn't miss this opportunity, so it was worth it.

Canon 5D Mark III with my 500L f4 lens with the 1.4 Extender, handheld as usual @ 1/1000, f11, ISO 400, no exposure compensation.

About 30% of the image cropped away for composition purposes and formatted for a 12 x 16 exposition frame.

Merci Les Boys!

Mike


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Bruno Thomassin 06-Feb-2017 18:22
Superbe spécimen Mike et merveilleuse shot. La lumière est vraiment top.
La végétation est dans les mêmes tons de couleur, que les yeux du Harfang.
RappWizard05-Feb-2017 18:40
Wow, shot of the day if not week. Excellent.