{"id":39572,"date":"2016-05-18T04:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=39572"},"modified":"2025-02-15T06:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:43:25","slug":"side-lit-short-eared-owl-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/05\/18\/side-lit-short-eared-owl-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Side lit Short-eared Owl Male"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SideSide lit Short-eared Owl – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 640, -0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes the light just isn’t right when you find a cooperative bird and there isn’t a thing you can do about it because you can’t make the sun come up from the west, north or south. When I came upon this Short-eared Owl last week I was disappointed because the owl was cooperative, I’d never seen an adult Short-eared Owl parallax as much as this one did and because there wasn’t a thing I could do to make the light angle better. I wanted to move the earth to get better light on him.<\/p>\n

But I took a few images of the owl when I went past it thinking I wouldn’t like any of the images when I could view them on my computer. I was wrong. I liked this image of the side lit Short-eared Owl more than I thought I could. I’d much rather have the light on the owl’s face but I like the side light in this frame and how even though the eyes are in shadow they still seem to glow. The image isn’t perfect but…<\/p>\n

The eyes have it. The eyes have me!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Short-eared Owl photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I liked this image of the side lit Short-eared Owl more than I thought I could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1148,130,26],"tags":[4004,4114,2663,4098,4062,3967,294,4104,11852,3971,1376,4342,165],"class_list":["post-39572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-short-eared-owls","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-asio-flammeus","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-desert","tag-male","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-perched","tag-ranchlands","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-side-light","tag-side-lit","tag-spring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t