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Great grey owl wide.

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Posted by Peter Cairns on January 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Great grey owl wide.
This Great grey owl was from last June but has only just found its way to the top of the processing pile. It was part of a Wild Wonders of Europe mission - speaking of which, check out some very very nice images by Sandra Bartocha, a young German photographer, in the 'Photographer of the week' section.
www.wild-wonders.com

Canon 1dIIs, 17-40mm lens, ISO 400.

Peter Cairns
www.northshots.com
Posted by Sam Mannaerts on January 16, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Stunning!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

grtz,
Sam
Posted by Vincent Jones on January 16, 2009 at 3:16 PM
One word from me Peter & that is AWESOME :eek:

With a 17-40mm too :smile:

Vince :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Mason on January 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Superb! I like the way the environment is so clearly shown.
Posted by A.R.D on January 16, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Like this a lot.

Cheers

Posted by jack chapman on January 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM
great image, the landing pose of the owl and the dappled lighting on the forest are both wonderful, the foreground out of focus vegetation below the tree is a tiny bit distracting but not too bad, this must look even better bigger
Posted by John Robinson on January 16, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Beautiful image which, with in my humble opinion, a little more separation would enable a comment more like "perfect" !
JR
Posted by eric weight on January 17, 2009 at 1:30 AM
I must admit that my first glance at this said "a bit lost in the bg" but the more I look at it, the less it bothers me and the more I like the way that the bird blends into its environment.
I absolutely love this image anyway.
:toast: :toast: Eric
Posted by Tom Smit on January 17, 2009 at 5:07 AM
Great shot. I think the BG is good. It his/hers habitat.
:toast: :toast:
Posted by Elliott Neep on January 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM
It is an awesome wildlife image. I love this contextual style of wildlife photography. I think it may have just suffered a little in the JPEG compression. There must be so much detail the background, but is it a little smudged? Brilliant shot!
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Barry Southon on January 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Peter

A 100% environmental shot "Superb"

Barry :wink:

Eastboune
Posted by Fran French on January 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I am with Eric on this. The more I look the more I love it! A great natural history image.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Simon Litten on January 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Top drawer stuff.

Simon
Posted by Rob Howard on January 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Hi Peter,

Very very nice indeed. I will be speaking to Jari about these at the Conference!!

Regards

Rob
Posted by Ray on January 17, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Needs more seperation from the B.G. for me, but still an excellent shot of the Great Grey in its enviromrnt.
Posted by Liam Pauling on January 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I really like this, it shoes the environment well, 17-40! Was this a camera trap/trigger or were you really that close?