Short-eared Owl in Flight
The bottom photo actually sparked my real passion in digital photography. I had a digital Rebel, and found a group of about 6 Short-eared Owls on the Fort Pierre National Grasslands, on a beautiful summer evening near dusk. They all flushed and flew away, except the one shown in the bottom, who just circled me, looking at me curiously. I took the photo, was thrilled with the result, and entered it in a Canon photo contest. From over 10,000 entries, the photo won the Grand Prize!! That's how I won the Canon 20D that has been used for SO many shots on my website.
While I couldn't top that bird for overall experience, I think I actually like the top photo better. It was of a bird I found on nice winter evening on the Fort Pierre National Grasslands. I took some photos of him perched on a wooden post, and then he had just taken off when I snapped the top photo. Aesthetically, it's one of my all-time favorites.
Top photo taken on December 9th, 2005, and the bottom photo taken on July 16th, 2004, both on the Fort Pierre National Grasslands in South Dakota.
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