Great Horned Owl In The Arizona Desert

Posted by RayRedstone on Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:04 am

All times are UTC-05:00

0 people like this post

First unread post

| 16 posts |

Page 1 of 1

This image was captured along a hiking trail in Scottsdale, AZ. Unfortunately I did not have a zoom lens on at the time.

Posted by:
RayRedstone
Forum Contributor

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Posts: 41
Joined: 28 Apr 2022

Visit website

by Craig Lipski on Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:08 am

Craig Lipski
Forum Contributor

Posts: 4682
Joined: 20 Aug 2003
Location: The bustling metropolis of Fowlerville, Michigan, and the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley
Member #:00495

View portfolio

Gorgeous!

Good light,
Craig

0 people like this post

by RayRedstone on Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:17 am

RayRedstone
Forum Contributor

Posts: 41
Joined: 28 Apr 2022
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Visit website

Thanks Craig!

0 people like this post

by Carol Clarke on Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:46 am

Carol Clarke
Chief Forum Administrator

Posts: 71863
Joined: 22 Aug 2003
Location: Lincolnshire, UK. In tune with Nature.
Member #:00067

View portfolio

I'm so glad you didn't have your zoom lens, Ray - this is a beautiful image just as it is! I love it.

Carol.

Carol Clarke
Chief Forum Administrator.

"When the power of love is greater than the love of power,
the world will know peace"....Jimi Hendrix.

NSN0067

0 people like this post

by RayRedstone on Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:51 am

RayRedstone
Forum Contributor

Posts: 41
Joined: 28 Apr 2022
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Visit website

Carol Clarke wrote: I'm so glad you didn't have your zoom lens, Ray - this is a beautiful image just as it is! I love it.

Carol.

Thanks Carol! I got lucky to get that close as they are pretty skittish...

0 people like this post

by Axel Hildebrandt on Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:23 pm

Axel Hildebrandt
Moderator

Posts: 20846
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Location: Coopersburg, PA
Member #:00941

View portfolio
Visit website

Great find, Ray. The wide crop, setting and colors in the background work really well.

Axel Hildebrandt

0 people like this post

by RayRedstone on Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:52 pm

RayRedstone
Forum Contributor

Posts: 41
Joined: 28 Apr 2022
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Visit website

Axel Hildebrandt wrote: Great find, Ray. The wide crop, setting and colors in the background work really well.

Thanks Axel. I see this particular Owl and his partner a lot on this desert trail. I was lucky one of them landed in that dead tree for a minute..

0 people like this post

by david fletcher on Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:11 pm

david fletcher
Moderator

Posts: 32858
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Location: UK
Member #:00525

View portfolio

Marvellous capture Ray! Love it!

Make your life spectacular!

NSN00525

0 people like this post

by RayRedstone on Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:13 pm

RayRedstone
Forum Contributor

Posts: 41
Joined: 28 Apr 2022
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Visit website

david fletcher wrote: Marvellous capture Ray! Love it!

Thanks David!

0 people like this post

by subhasis roy on Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:28 pm

subhasis roy
Forum Contributor

Posts: 205
Joined: 17 Jun 2019

Amazing frame

0 people like this post

by Karl Egressy on Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:55 pm

Karl Egressy
Forum Contributor

Posts: 38847
Joined: 11 Dec 2004
Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Member #:00988

View portfolio

Beautiful bird-scape image.

0 people like this post

by SantaFeJoe on Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:13 pm

SantaFeJoe
Forum Contributor

Posts: 8566
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
Location: Somewhere Out In The Wilds

Carol Clarke wrote: I'm so glad you didn't have your zoom lens, Ray - this is a beautiful image just as it is! I love it.

Carol.

+1

Joe

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. -Pablo Picasso

0 people like this post

by paul fletcher on Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:37 pm

paul fletcher
Forum Contributor

Posts: 2575
Joined: 26 Feb 2018
Member #:02174

View portfolio

A stunning image, Ray- a pleasure to view.

0 people like this post

by Pete Zwiers on Fri Sep 15, 2023 9:39 pm

Pete Zwiers
Lifetime Member

Posts: 1415
Joined: 3 Aug 2004
Location: Prince George, B.C.
Member #:00411

View portfolio
Visit website

Screw the zoom lens on this one, this is brilliant for the setting that was presented.

Close up GHOs are a time a dozen (against a blue sky) IMO.

This would make a terrific wall print!

0 people like this post

by RayRedstone on Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:50 am

RayRedstone
Forum Contributor

Posts: 41
Joined: 28 Apr 2022
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Visit website

Thanks Pete! I shoot a lot of sunrises and sunsets using a 50 mm prime lenses as is really sharp an great in low light. Thats what I had on with this owl shot...

0 people like this post

by Cynthia Crawford on Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:19 pm

Cynthia Crawford
Moderator

Posts: 19774
Joined: 10 Jun 2006
Location: Vermont
Member #:00733

View portfolio
Visit website

No regreats! Fabulous owk-scape-love the dead tree and beautiful sky for a setting.

Cynthia (Cindy) Crawford-Moderator, Photo & Digital Art
web site: http://www.creaturekinships.net
"If I Keep a Green Bough in My Heart, the Singing Bird Will Come" Chinese Proverb

0 people like this post