Red one

Grey one

A pair

A pair of old man owls that get along well enough to live in the same enclosure.

Profile

Flight

Back feathers

Snowy owl

Same owl as Tuesday

But he looks very different without his mouth open.

Last shots of second owl

Another owl

This guy was much less active making photographing him significantly easier.

He has a very peaceful face.

Which one?

Almost identical. How do I choose one over the other?

Owls

"All About Owls" Seminar at the Raptor Education Foundation in Brighton CO. We got to meet and photograph five birds. Typically when I shoot this sort of subject I rely on the "spray and pray" strategy. The downside of which is figuring out what images I like out of the 220 I took that evening.

The first cut is any image that doesn't have perfectly sharp eyes.

That still leaves a lot of shots that are almost identical. 

Second cut is a bad exposure or pose.

Unfortunately even after that I've still got 80% of my original selection remaining.

I think this guy was my favorite of the bunch. He was very expressive.

Even more owls