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<\/p>\nA five photo flight series.<\/p>\n
This is an older series taken on Antelope Island in July of 2012. Two of the five photos have been posted before (readers may remember one of them from the rotating banner I used to have at the top of my blog) but three of them are new to Feathered Photography and none of the five have ever been seen in a series. I’ll explain why at the end of this post.<\/p>\n
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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n On that morning this young Burrowing Owl and ‘his’ siblings were practicing their takeoffs and landings which they weren’t yet very good at. Most often they were approaching their intended landing spots from my right or my left so I was lucky to get a single flight or landing shot, especially back then when my tracking skills weren’t much better than their landing skills.<\/p>\n But this young bird made a head-on approach to his intended landing spot in a sagebrush which made it a little easier for me to lock on to him and keep locked on. I’m particularly fond of the series because I like the colors of the Great Salt Lake shoreline in the background.<\/p>\n In the first two shots he’s looking at me instead of…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n his intended landing spot, probably because I’m a suspicious looking character. But at some point he had to look at the sagebrush in order to plan his precise landing spot and that happened…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n in the next shot in the series.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Now he’s really concentrating on the sagebrush. At this age clumsy landings are the rule rather than the exception and he was obviously trying to improve his track record through practice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Now his feet are reaching out to grab the sagebrush. But we’ll all be left in the lurch wondering how the landing went because this is the last photo I saved and nine years later I can’t remember if he aced the landing or not.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n OK, time to fess up about why I’ve never posted all five photos as a series. To my sensibilities these photos need clockwise rotation, suggested by the sagebrush stems leaning to our left and the color bands in the water in the background that aren’t horizontal. But in three of the photos I didn’t have enough room on the right for rotation because if I rotated them I’d cut off the tip of his left wing. The two photos where I did have enough room are #2 and #5 so they’re the two photos I posted years ago.<\/p>\n But for today’s post I decided to look past that flaw and post all five photos without rotation. I enjoy seeing them as a series, warts and all, and I thought my readers might too.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A five photo flight series.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/burrowing-owl-6449-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"burrowing-owl-6449-ron-dudley\\"")
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