Before you look at these you should know that Thomas Mangelson has nothing to worry about when it comes to my wildlife photography. But Snowy Owls are in the area (I'm told a once-in-a-lifetime event that they come as far south as Nebraska) and I've been dying to capture one. Last evening I spotted one near our small town airport on a lamp post, right after sundown, but I did not have my camera with me. Tonight I was in place, in case he returned again. He did, right on time, but he landed on the street light farthest from me (natch).
He didn't stay long and took off to the SW. I followed him through the telephoto (and through my car window) snapping sillhouette shots when, to my surprise another flew into view and they tangled repeatedly in mid-air. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/6792942927/ After three tangles or so one flew of farther SW. I tried to catch up, hoping to find where he had landed. I succeeded, but unfortunately it was on some extremely high power poles. I placed myself beneath him and shot through the sunroof. When I realized it was getting too dark I decided to try using my flash set on manual, which worked decently. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/6792955637/ I've got a sequence of them tangling and a half dozen decently sharp shots of the bird by himself. Never thought I'd have to be removing red eye from a Snowy Owl, but one of them needs it. : ) Neat day. (We also broke the temperature record for the date by 5 degrees, with a high of 68. Take THAT 1931.) Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
