{"id":33753,"date":"2015-08-28T05:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=33753"},"modified":"2015-08-28T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:08:42","slug":"juvenile-burrowing-owl-playing-peekaboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/juvenile-burrowing-owl-playing-peekaboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Burrowing Owl Playing Peekaboo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I can’t explain well why I like an image – it just “grabs” me for some reason. In this case it’s for what I perceived as personal interaction with me.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon \u00a0EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed this\u00a0juvenile Burrowing Owl two months ago in Box Elder County, Utah. It was still very young,\u00a0inexperienced, awkward\u00a0and curious about the world it had so recently been exposed to.\u00a0At times it was a little unstable on this precarious perch so it would occasionally use its wings for balance.<\/p>\n

But I had the distinct impression that this time was a little different. It held its left wing in this position and peered at me over the top of it, almost\u00a0as if\u00a0it thought it was hiding from me\u00a0behind its own wing as it covertly checked me out. Every time I look at the image it reminds me of the big smile on my face as I watched this\u00a0youngster through my lens and wondered what was going on in its quirky little mind.<\/p>\n

Sometimes my photos are\u00a0as much\u00a0about the memories\u00a0as\u00a0they are about the images themselves.<\/p>\n

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

Sometimes I can’t explain well why I like an image – it just “grabs” me for some reason. In this case it’s for what I perceived as personal interaction with me.<\/p>\n

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