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Photo of the Day August 2018
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For years I have been driving along the M8 motorway to/from Edinburgh and seen signs for the Scottish Owl Centre. Today, we pulled off and went for a look. It is a smallish place but has a fantastic selection of owls. Including cute little ones and big scary ones! Here is a cheeky little Burrowing Owl - I had no idea some of them lived in burrows!
Burrowing Owl by Ken OHagan, on Flickr
Burrowing Owl by Ken OHagan, on Flickr
Why didn't you go to work like you should have?For years I have been driving along the M8 motorway to/from Edinburgh and seen signs for the Scottish Owl Centre. Today, we pulled off and went for a look. It is a smallish place but has a fantastic selection of owls. Including cute little ones and big scary ones! Here is a cheeky little Burrowing Owl - I had no idea some of them lived in burrows!
Owls are great aren't they. Did they do any flying?
For some reason, and I have never figured out just why, I really dislike owls and don't like to photograph them, don't want any part of them...... Maybe I got traumatized by one as a child and I just don't recall it, which I suppose is possible. It is really too bad, as I realize and acknowledge that they are fascinating birds....
Took today off to be with the monkeys before they go back to school.
There was flying, the Eurasian Eagle Owl was HUGE! It has a 6 foot wingspan.
Amazing creatures. Wish I knew how to take pictures through the enclosure fence properly. Guessing long focal length and large aperture to blur the wire??
"the Onion" thought the same, so they ran a photo of an owl, with the caption "owls are a--holes" back in1997.
i love them! took a few photos of one> https://flic.kr/p/qXLzqG
In the meantime, another image from the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk, this time, the front entrance of the OC Music Pier building (which includes restrooms for the public, a pavilion-sort of place to stroll around and/or sit and relax out of the sun, and as well, a place to look down over the beach, along with the actual "theatre" part of the building, which includes a stage, professional lighting setup, audio/video components, sound system, etc. It's a really cool place for both performers and audiences to enjoy concerts!
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Interesting. I was never really that interested in them growing up as we had Kestrels near where I gre up so they kind of stole the show.
Today was fascinating though and yet another slap in the face for open your eyes to what is on your door step.
What is funny is that the bird keepers said they arent the most intelligent birds of prey lol... Apparently some of them are as dumb as a fencepost.
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Thats one of the big ones isnt it? Their talons are lethal and razor sharp.
For years I have been driving along the M8 motorway to/from Edinburgh and seen signs for the Scottish Owl Centre. Today, we pulled off and went for a look. It is a smallish place but has a fantastic selection of owls. Including cute little ones and big scary ones! Here is a cheeky little Burrowing Owl - I had no idea some of them lived in burrows!
Was this at Polkemmet Park?
Great selection of owls and they do a very informative indoor display. Amazing birds.
Yep thats the one. It was actually really good. People moan about the price but they forget there is a cost to run the place and so ticket prices reflect that.
We will be going back for sure.
You need some distance between the fence and the bird, but that's not always possible.
I have a great tiger shot but he was just inches from the wire so it's next to useless.
The content aware stuff can only do so much.
A local winery that I wanted to grab a long exposure capture of, but alas, the clouds were too dang thick...
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And as @kenoh mentioned, shoot with the aperture wide open.
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I shove my lens right up against the wire, and as long as you are focusing a ways beyond that, they generally disappear from sight. I managed a great shot of a birds eye that was right up on the immediate other side of the wire and the wires disappeared altogether. When you are a ways back from the wire, the animals need to be exponentially further away on the other side for the wire to disappear then.
And as @kenoh mentioned, shoot with the aperture wide open.
In the tiger instance I'd have been about 6 inches from him which was closer than I'd have liked! And probably closer than the keeper would have allowed!
I need to try again. I was trying to get it so the centre of the shot was through a gap so I could crop heavily afterwards.
Next time see if I can get a better result.
Or as you have a little one you could poke it in the hole?
Mines a big one!
Even my itty bitty little one wouldn't fit...
I liked the light on a colour version of this so I played with it in B&W. Hope you like it.
DSCF2589.jpg by Ken OHagan, on Flickr
DSCF2589.jpg by Ken OHagan, on Flickr