Short-eared owl

I have spent several days recently at a site where a number of short-eared owls are over wintering. It is difficult to get close, but I did rather like a sequence of one of them quartering over an area of marshland, and have stitched the four images together. I realise this is unlikely to be to everybody's taste, but thought it worth sharing anyway.

Thanks for looking.

David

Nikon D300, 600mm Nikon, 200 ISO, 4 shots, typically 1/2500 @ f4.0

Seem to remember you did a similiar thing with a monkey from madagascar, I don't dislike it and am a fan of expirementing, wouldn't it be boring if we all did the same thing? Marshland? looks like it was shot in the desert! Lovely light on the owls

Like it David! My first reaction was........my God......a squadron of owls! Then I read your post. I think it would look great on a wall. It would certainly be a talking point.

Nick.

David you have done a very good job tagging these together,like Phil says it does look abit like a desert bg ,i like it!

Keith.

Thanks everyone for the comments so far.
Keith and Phil, The owl was hunting over marshland, but behind was a huge spoil tip. I think it is from where some of the water channels have been dredged. It is the effect of late afternoon sun on this that makes it look like a desert.

Phil, Yes, I have tried this once before with lemurs, and have been trying to get another workable sequence ever since!

David

David

A unique sequence well captured. Makes a excellent pano which would without doubt invoke a great deal of interest. This year 2011/12 seems to have been a great year for Short-Eared Owls we have four showing well locally.

David I think this works very well and makes a great pano

Oscar

Like it and love the idea behind the image,,, perhaps... a bit of personal preference here, eliminate the left hand motif, threes are more comfortable than fours and I feel this would work a lot better as a tryptych, maybe a tad closer together for each element?

Good to see and an enjoyable image

I like this very much David. I take Phil's point about odd numbers working better (never really understood why though) but in this case, I like the fact one is isolated against the sky. Flows very nicely indeed.

Full marks for experimenting, a fine composite image. Now if only it was in 3D. :-) ;-)

Yes I think the three too. Good stuff'
JR

I dont think I got 4 shots in sequence focussed on the owl so well done on that! Works for me but what is the BG?

When I first saw it I thought there were four owls I dont mind it with four but if you block off the left one it looks pretty good. Anyway I like it a lot and would love a sequence like that this weekend

Why do pictures work better in three's and moving or looking left to right? I show a kestrel shot in my workshops with it flying left to right and also reversed. No one has ever picked the right to left image as their preference

Bob

Thanks for the comments, I am glad people seem to like the shot.

Neil - see above. I continue to think it is stuff dredged from the channels.

John, PhilH etc. I agree about the three or five, and did think of cutting one "bird" (or motif) out. However, I wanted to keep the first and last, and as I wanted to keep the even distance between the owl images as well, I was left with retaining all four. Thanks for the advice though.

Bob - I always "read" pictures left to right (as you do a book). I wonder if people in cultures where you read from right to left would think differently? Imust confess that the only reason it is left to right is because that is the way I took it!

David

Works very well. I like it a lot.

a nicely put together image David, it works well for me.

Matt

Great idea and works very well love it