Dangerous Home

I took this picture when my dad and I found a family of Great Horned Owls not far from our home. We asked the people that owned the farm if we could take pictures there and got some that we really liked. On the way back to the truck we noticed one of the young owls had perched on the fence near us. I saw the wind turbines in the background and thought it made a good picture because so many birds end up dying from windmills. My family and I are always afraid for Great Horned Owls that we see close to these big turbines. These windmills aren't super close but there's a lot of owls that live all around them here!

Also I would just like to say that I've never been bitten by more mosquitoes in one evening than I was while taking pictures of these owls!

Nikon D7100
Nikkor AF-S 300mm f/4D IF-ED with 1.4 TC
ISO 2500
1/3200sec @ f/6.3
monopod

Note from Dad: Had to bring up the exposure on the foreground up a bit as Josiah had been photographing this owl's sibling perched in a tree against a darker hillside and suddenly spotted this owl. He quietly moved to a better angle but it looked like the owl was about to fly off to join its siblings, so he had to quickly squeeze the shot off without having time to adjust for dusk sky in the background. I chose to not bring the exposure up "all the way" to keep the feeling of dusk and match the scene to as close as Josiah and I remembered it...it really was last light. Minor tweaks in PS CS5 and Nik.