Today amid snow squalls and strong winds I made another trek over to see the neighborhood snowy. As usual she was plunked down in the middle of a field that was planted with soy beans last summer. Most likely the field mice and meadow voles are foraging beneath the snow for spilled beans from the harvest, which is likely why this owl is so content on staying at this field, with the well stocked buffet.
To create this image I used a tripod mounted Nikon 80-400mm VR lens on a Nikon D800. After framing the scene accordingly I utilized the Live View function of the camera to manually focus on the owl. An ISO of 1250 was dialed in and an aperture of f16 @ 1/1000 second was used for the exposure, due to the high winds and my desire to enough depth of field for the owl and the distant trees, as well as wanting to capture some of the snow flakes in the air.
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Beautiful image, you really did a great job capturing the essence of the scene.
Thanks very much Malcolm!
Cool image Andrew, I love it!
Greatly appreciated Denise!!!
Very nice! It’s amazing you would even be able to see the owl in all of that snow!
Thanks a bunch Michael!
Such a moody capture Andrew…sometimes we just want to shoot so tight on these snowy beauties but this does really show the dynamics of their world…beautiful!
Thanks so much for the kind words Karen, they are much appreciated!