Owl 1

Wow - owls are tough! Too often too dark to photograph them by the time they come out.

I like the composition and the owl's pose. I would have liked to have seen a closer shot of the owl, but it would then loose some of its environmental appeal. Chances are you were already as close as you could get and had the lens racked all the way out to 300 anyway, judging from the depth of field.

Is that 100-300 the F4L? If so, how do you like it? I would like to purchase it, but it's pretty low on the budgetary priorities right now.

Thank you for your comments. I did want the shot to be an environmental depiction rather than just a shot of an owl, I can only hope I achieved that here.

The lens I was using was a Tamron 100-300 F5.6/6.3 fully extended. A Canon 500mm F4L is on my wish list though.

I followed this guy around for a while and he let me get rather close... check out http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3099719.

Cheers!