Barn Owl

[Anthony House]

Barn Owl hunting from a fence post, taken in the Norfolk fens using car as a hide and resting the lens on a bean bag..

1DMK11 N 600F4 1.4XTC
ISO 250
EV -1/3
Shutter 1/200
Aperture F10

[colin C]

Re: Barn Owl

Male Barn Owl and lovely early morning light, it doesn't get much better than that, well done Anthony. A very sympathetic background and the fence post and wire is in keeping with the habits of the species.

F10 on a 600mm + 1.4x? That must have given you depth of field of around a foot!

Colin

[hughbie]

Re: Barn Owl

Beautiful photo.

[Canon-Fodder!]

Re: Barn Owl

Beautifully atmospheric shot! You can almost feel that silken touch that Barn Owls have... Stunner; I'd be deliriously happy with that!

[Anthony House]

Re: Barn Owl

Thanks all....

Colin, it got a bit better about an hour later when another Barn Owl caught a Vole landed on a post and posed for me... I couldn't believe my luck, I'd been trying for that shot for a few years..

[Les McLean]

Re: Barn Owl

Beautiful image, with gorgeous light, I wish it were mine.

[colin C]

Re: Barn Owl

Thanks all....

Colin, it got a bit better about an hour later when another Barn Owl caught a Vole landed on a post and posed for me... I couldn't believe my luck, I'd been trying for that shot for a few years..

Oooh, I hate you. I'm still trying for that shot.

Eric Hoskin got that shot and lost an eye during the process. He called it the Angel of Death and it is the best Barn Owl Shot I have ever seen.

Colin

[Dave]

Re: Barn Owl

Super shot! Did you have to wait long for the shot?

[Anthony House]

Re: Barn Owl

It's more of a case of getting close Dave, sometimes they tolerate you being near sometimes they don't. Thankfully this bird was very approachable on many occasions and I had my best winter so far photographing Barn Owls...

Regards.
Tony

[X-ray-spex]

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That's a beauty ......... can we see the one with the vole?