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Snowy Owl Canada.

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15 replies
Posted by John Chapman on March 11, 2009 at 6:42 AM
Snowy Owl Canada.
Picture taken with a 40D Canon 500mm lens 1.4conv. 1/500 sec. F5.6 ISO 200.
All comments welcomed.
Posted by Ray on March 11, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Right out of the top draw, the real icing on the cake, would have been to have both eyes, but you knew that anyway. Just superb.
Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on March 11, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Hi John a very very fine image 40D canon or d40 nikon.

Phil.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :wavey:
Posted by F.DESMETTE on March 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Sexy bird, personnaly I think that two tone background does not work? Sorry
Best wishes
Frederic
Posted by Bob Cox on March 11, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Nice picture , was it landing or taking off ?.

Bob.
Posted by John Chapman on March 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Hi,thanks for your comments. Phil it was a 40D Canon and Bob I cannot remember if it was taking off or landing. By the end of my Trip I had 1200 images in a special folder. :toast:
Posted by Mark sellings on March 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Putting on my graphic designers hat I would say I love the 2-tone bg as it amkes a beautiful colour palette - this is a lovely shot

:toast:

Mark
Posted by Andrew Parkinson on March 11, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Beautiful subject well captured. I hope you don't mind but I'd love to know the circumstances around how this image was captured, and also to hear the opinions of other contributors about a potentially contentious subject.

Andrew - we don't mind you asking, but would rather - out of courtesy to John & his image - that the question was put in it's own topic. That way this topic can stay as an image critique. Thanks. The Mods
Posted by Kim Connolly on March 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Fabulous, a wonderful shot!
Posted by Billy Fairburn on March 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Absolute stunner John!
Posted by Chris Johnstone on March 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM
When I saw the title of this post I was ready for a stunner and I'm not disappointed. Two eyes would have topped it as mentioned and I kinda get a bit agitated that I don't know whether it's coming or going but what beautiful colours and background. It looks like there is fine mist coming off the wings.

Chris
Posted by keith mitchell on March 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Simply the best!!!!!! one excellent capture.
:toast: :toast: :toast:

Keith.
Posted by Mark Hamblin on March 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Glad to see it all worked out in the end! Not overly keen on the split background, but I'm sure you've got many others from the 1200.
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM
I'm undecided on the BG John so leaving that aside it's a superb capture of an awesome bird :wavey:

I saw some of the images the Norwegians brought back the other week and I must say I was impressed :wink:

I know you'll have a surfeit of 'stonkers' in that 1200 John :smile: :smile:
Posted by Magnus Hird on March 12, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Just fab throughout John, really like the colours :smile:
Posted by Barry Southon on March 13, 2009 at 6:12 PM
John

Simply stunning.

Barry :wink:

Kansas