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<\/p>\nLast night while looking for something else\u00a0I found a pleasant surprise in my archives. It was this Short-eared Owl photo that I’ve never posted before and the fact that I hadn’t posted it\u00a0surprised me very much\u00a0because I like it a lot.<\/p>\n
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1\/1250, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n The photo was taken in June of 2010 at Montana’s Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge as the male owl was delivering a\u00a0vole to his family on\u00a0the nest. I won’t list all the things I like about the image and there’s a bunch of them but\u00a0near the top of the\u00a0list is that vertically extended right wing, in contrast to the horizontal left wing. This is a flight posture I’ve always loved, especially in a raptor\u00a0The lower background is mostly\u00a0sagebrush flats and the upper background is the Centennial Mountains in shade.<\/p>\n I do have a small nit to pick but I don’t think I’ll pick it…<\/p>\n I nearly always had low light during the several days I was photographing this owl. I was also still getting used to\u00a0operating a\u00a0relatively new camera and eight years ago my flight shot skills\u00a0were primitive at best so with those three strikes against me the low light often defeated me. Looking back I’d say I was very near the limits of both shutter speed for an owl in flight and ISO for the 7D with any expectations\u00a0of getting\u00a0high quality photos.<\/p>\n Finding this image again was a serendipitous event for me.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night while looking for something else I found a pleasant surprise in my archives.<\/p>\n