Overexposed Owl

[tameigh]

More wildlife follies. I could have sworn I had the camera set to aprature, but it was set to manual, in this case, utterly random. I must have knocked the button turning it on.



The actual image, after the owl flew off, on the camera was pure white. I used posterize to try to increase the sharpness. The problem with shooting wildlife is that I can go months without seeing an owl, then there is one for 30 secs.

[jiro]

That is certainly unique. More like a line drawing to me.

[ilovelucydog]

I did something like that before... I think it's sort of like surprise 'art'!

[Katy Noelle]

Tim, both of us have VINS (Vermont Institute of Natural Science) that we could go to! Hadn't thought of that before. Have you been? Although, really, at night, I can hear so many owls - why don't I ever see them?

[tameigh]

That is a cut dog! The picture is like a pencil drawing.

Katy
There are more owls around than you think in the daytime. In the winter, they roost in trees about midway to two thirds up the tree, unlike crows, for example, and hawks, blackbirds, who hang out in the tree tops. So if you see a squat bird, roosting in the day in a tree, but not in the top, there is a good chance it is an owl, because, as you said, they are very common around here.

In the summer you can often spot them when they are being mobbed by songbirds. They sort of ignore them, but the ruckus does attract attention to them.

[Katy Noelle]

I'll keep an eye out, then! I need to look up more, I think.