{"id":32906,"date":"2015-07-25T06:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=32906"},"modified":"2015-07-25T06:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:21:35","slug":"great-horned-owl-bathed-in-a-fiery-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/great-horned-owl-bathed-in-a-fiery-glow\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned Owl Bathed In A Fiery Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried for three days to get some images of one of the Great Horned Owls on the farm. When I finally succeeded something a little weird happened.<\/p>\n

This owl stays hidden away in an old granary all day but just at sunset it perches on this cutout for a few minutes as it surveys its kingdom before flying off in the gathering darkness to hunt. I’ve seen this happen several times now but was only able to get a few shots of the bird on one evening and they’re really not very good.<\/p>\n

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\"greaat1\/250, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon\u00a0EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

But there is something interesting about them. Smoke from the fire in nearby Glacier National Park (it’s called the Reynold’s Creek Wildland Fire) tends to drift our way when the wind dies down in the evening and it has some eerie effects on light when the setting sun hits the horizon. As the light tries to burn through the smoke it turns red and baths everything in this eerie colored light, including the barn wood.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I like the effect aesthetically but I still find it interesting because the owl seems to be staring at its suddenly red world and wondering what’s going on out there. The bird knew I was there as I pointed my long lens at it from behind another old granary but it seemed to ignore me and just stare at all that weird color.<\/p>\n

I wonder if owls wonder. Probably not but my mind does go there…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I tried for three days to get some images of one of the Great Horned Owls on the farm. When I finally succeeded something a little weird happened.<\/p>\n

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