Kip’s Comments - January 9, 2023

I Have Met My Match

After shooting more than 800,000 images I have developed some reliable photography skills. As practiced as I am, shooting short-eared owls in flight that are quite a distance away in very low light conditions has beaten me. In fact, I am not sure I even want to share bad pictures recorded late this afternoon. But, I tried and did the best I could under the conditions. So I will share a single disappointing image. The rest were not worthy of sharing.

For others wanting to photograph the short-eared owls, did you notice the northern harriers also flying around? If you were not looking close and watching only the distant movement, it would have been easy to be fooled. We had both short-eared owls and northern harriers on the hunt today.

Bad or not, here are is one image from today’s short-eared owl efforts. (This proves having good equipment does not assure good images.)

Short-eared Owl in Flight - Image 787985

For reference purposes, this is an image of a short-eared owl I photographed and shared a week or two ago at a different location. I like this much better!

Short-eared Owl - Image 786865