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Thanks for looking! This guy was hunting the ridge in the distance

when my wife saw him shift direction and head our way. I hastily

changed lenses and barely manual-focused in time. The 400mm lens

won't autofocus with the 1.4 teleconverter!

Your haste and skills paid off nicely here.  I've not yet seen one of these in the many times I've been there.  Good work, thanks for sharing.

Dominick, This is a great image. The detail is wonderful. 

Steve, Tony, thanks for commenting.  I posted another photo of the owl showing him in the crater.

Good catch Dominick! It's difficult to shoot flying bird up in the sky since the bottom of the wings lighting would always be dark. You did fine there! The 400mm will focus with one single center focusing point on a 1D series camera (I have both a 1D Mark III & 5D Mark II and on the 5D II it's manual focus ).

Lilttle bit of envy here, thats one of the owls I've been looking for.  As mentioned, good light under the wings.

That's a really nice capture Dominick, and it's looking into the camera no less! I've just seen my first Owl in the wild on Friday, a Short Eared. No easy feat getting an acceptable image of one of these birds, very very people shy. (no matter how patient I was, there always seemed to be someone driving by or jumping out of their car when the owl would come into range.) One of these days :)

Regards, Randall