Powerful Owl, Magnificent Lense!

[dearis]

[SIZE=2]Hi there,

I guess it's no secret that my lens of choice and favorite lens is the Canon 70-200mm F/4 L series and I love it. Yesterday a mate and I went in search of 2 things Wedge tailed eagles at nest and powerful owls. We found both. A wedgie still in the nest fairly young (man was that a hike up and down a valley and my mate is 82!) and for the first time I got a look into a wedge tailed eagle nest (Australia's largest eagle) photos were not succesful but something I will never forget.

Then down the mountain in search of powerful owls (Australias largest and the worlds second largest) they are a hawk owl. I was wandering on the edge of a Eucalypt forrest that adjoined pine trees (Owls have adapted to pines here they like the horizontal perches) I was looking for scat and pellets and saw some really fresh stuff. Looked up and there was a pair of powerful owls 4ft from my head. Needless to say I fired shot after shot sadly the male was blocked but here is the hen, clutching last nights dinner, A brush tailed possom (to give you some idea of the size of these birds, these possoms are around 750mm-900mm of 2-3ft in length.)

Anyway here are some shots from yesterday Owls, I hope you enjoy.

Comments always welcome.

Regards Darren

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/dearis_photos/owl.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/dearis_photos/IMG_9174.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/dearis_photos/IMG_9159.jpg

[DDA]

Waow beautiful!

If I may comment, the color seems a little bit strange on my monitor (a little bit too "purple") - but it may be my monitor and not your pictures! And on #2 focus seems to be on the branches instead of his head...

But you sure had a memorable day! Thanks for sharing!

[jforj143]

Wonderful shots .....
cheers John

[Keith R]

Fabulous.

There's a bit of a purple cast on my monitor too, but I hadn't really registered it until it was mentioned by DDA.

And yeah, number 2 seems to have missed focus a tad - though it's still a picture I'd be proud of.

[beano]

My first thought was "tone down the magenta" hehe! Very nice capture though. ;)

[calicokat]

Fabulous Shots, very nice :)

[dearis]

Thanks all, hadn'y noticed the purple using a laptop PP is the reason, some of these things I dont see until I doo some sample prints.

Regards Darren