African Wood-owl (at the limits!)

This guy was shot on a trip to Botswana.

It was quite late in the day and the light was failing fast - I moved the ISO setting to the maximim and shot about a dozen pictures, of which this is the only one not obviously suffering from camera shake.

ISO 1600, 1/15, f4, 300mm (hand held). Some pp to minimise noise, and the usual cropping/resizing.

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Cool shot, reminds me of an old english judge....nice capture. steve

Excellent shot....1/15 hand held at 300mm is amazing. Very well done.

Very cool looking owl and very nice photograph under less than ideal conditions.

Nice job under the conditions. Interesting looking bird.

Excellent job. To get a usable shot handheld at that speed is simply amazing. Very well done indeed.

Good save of a very unusual looking owl.