Here’s one more great gray owl to end the week. It was very early in the morning, very cold, very windy and very much blizzard-ing. Which made for a very monochromatic, moody image. The owl didn’t seem too concerned with the storm and was going about its business of hunting for mice and voles just like any other morning. Photographed at Sax Zim Bog in northern Minnesota. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1600, f/5.6 at 1/50th of a second.
Yeah, still working out the kinks of the email notification system. Sorry about that Louis. I’m working to getting things back to your usual joke writing schedule.
This is just beautiful! Perfect balance in this image with the owl on one side, the tree as counterpoint, and lack of color is simply perfect. Spectacular! (Not to mention that you had to brave the snowy forest in a blizzard for I don’t know how long to get this shot! Thanks!)
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Here’s one more great gray owl to end the week. It was very early in the morning, very cold, very windy and very much blizzard-ing. Which made for a very monochromatic, moody image. The owl didn’t seem too concerned with the storm and was going about its business of hunting for mice and voles just like any other morning. Photographed at Sax Zim Bog in northern Minnesota. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1600, f/5.6 at 1/50th of a second.
Sean, the email that notified me of this post just arrived, like exactly at 5 pm. I can’t be funny after 2:30, and even then it’s dodgy.
Maybe you can just call me every morning and describe the photo and then I’ll tell you a joke about it. Would that work better?
Yeah, still working out the kinks of the email notification system. Sorry about that Louis. I’m working to getting things back to your usual joke writing schedule.
Whoa! Such an atmospheric shot. Love it!
Wow, Sean!
I’m neither a photographer nor a fine artist. But, I believe that your are as hardy & intrepid as any vole hunting owl out there.
Your 1/50th shutter renders a perfect snowflake blur to set off the crisply static bird.
I could believe I was looking at a charcoal & pencil on paper piece from the mid-19th century (or earlier.)
Bravo!
Stunning!
Fantastic!
This is just beautiful! Perfect balance in this image with the owl on one side, the tree as counterpoint, and lack of color is simply perfect. Spectacular! (Not to mention that you had to brave the snowy forest in a blizzard for I don’t know how long to get this shot! Thanks!)