Hooters!

[koputai (Jason)]

Some owl shots from recent travels. Once again, all shots with the 7D and the amazing 70-300mm L lens. There's a bit of jpeg compression on these to fit the site limits.

1. Short Eared Owl swooping towards its prey - Genovesa Island, Galapagos

2. Short Eared Owl head on

3. Short Eared Owl consuming its prey

4. Spectacular Owl - Jungle on the Penas Blancas River, Costa Rica





Cheers,
Jason.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

LOL... Very nice shots Jason.

You'll be hunting for Paridae next.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

There seems to be a theme to your thread titles but I can't quite grasp it at the moment.

[rally]

Jason,

I see by the travel destinations and the images that you have been having a great time !

Capturing birds of prey in flight like that is very satisfying, so you must be happy.

Wow, that lens has very, very little CA - the Spectacular Owl shows that really well, so I can see how you would be pleased with that - especially given its flexibility.
I just looked it up - 4 stops of IS too !

How much have you cropped those ?

Anymore interesting creature shots to show ?

Rally

Edit
PS Well done David !!
Nice to see its a family friendly site.
One is the hand is always better than two in the bush !

[astroron (Ron)]

Not into the technical qualities of the pictures, But to me they are spectacular
#1 and#2 are fantastic.
Thank you for posting them
Cheers

[astroboy]

Great shots Jason ! the 70 - 300L looks like the ideal travel lens .

Thanks
Zane

[koputai (Jason)]

Thanks very much everyone, I must admit I was amazed when these images stared appearing in my camera!

Yes Zane, I reckon it's almost the perfect travel lens, definitely so for people and wildlife anyway.

Originally Posted by rally

How much have you cropped those ?

Not much Rally, the first is about 80% of the frame, the head-on about 70% of the frame, the eating shot is pretty much the whole frame, I managed to get about 3 metres from him! The Spectacular Owl is much more cropped, maybe 20% of the frame.

Anymore interesting creature shots to show ?

Oh yeah, plenty........

Cheers,
Jason.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Ha!... what a tease.

[rally]

Wow 3m !

Ok lets see the rest.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Great shots Jason! Sounds like an excellent trip.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Paddy (Patrick)]

Great photos Jason. And what a great trip.