{"id":28545,"date":"2014-12-24T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=28545"},"modified":"2014-12-24T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T00:45:06","slug":"barn-owl-in-flight-and-hopes-for-a-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/24\/barn-owl-in-flight-and-hopes-for-a-white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Owl In Flight (and hopes for a white Christmas)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t have many Christmassy-looking images to accompany my heart-felt wishes that all of my readers have a joyous holiday with family and loved ones so this Barn Owl in flight against a snowy backdrop will just have to do.\u00a0 I thought about cloning a\u00a0red Santa hat onto the head of the bird but that thought was a fleeting one because I just couldn’t bring myself to do that to the owl.<\/p>\n

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\"barn1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS USM +1.4 tc, canvas added for composition,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed this owl as it hunted for voles in very deep snow two winters ago at Farmington Bay.\u00a0 Though that much snow is hard on our owls I find myself hoping for some of it tonight.\u00a0 We haven’t had significant snow yet this year but we’re finally supposed to get dumped on tonight and wake up to a white Christmas.\u00a0 If it happens I’m hoping to\u00a0go looking for birds if I can\u00a0safely get to a\u00a0good location and there’s enough light.\u00a0 It’s our tradition to photograph birds on Christmas morning whenever possible and we have hopes for tomorrow, though it may or may not pan out.<\/p>\n

Whatever your tradition is for the holiday I hope it’s a joyous one.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t have many Christmassy-looking images to accompany my heart-felt wishes that all of my readers have a joyous holiday with family and loved ones so this Barn Owl in flight against a snowy backdrop will just have to do. I thought about cloning a red Santa hat onto the head of the bird but that thought was a fleeting one because I just couldn’t bring myself to do that to the owl.<\/p>\n

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