Although I am not a fan of heavily cropped images, I could not resist showing this one. Over the weekend I found no less than 4 different adults and 4 chicks within 5 minutes cycling distance (yes, I’m Dutch
) from my doorstep. Thanks for viewing and have a nice Sunday, Cheers, Hans
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Can you tell that this is such a huge crop?
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Nikon D850 with 500mm f4 | 1/500s | f5.6 | ISO560 | overexposed 1 2/3 EV | tripod. This is 35% of the original image
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Wow! Sounds like the owl gods were smiling on you. Great capture.
Hans, such a cute owl. That is one photogenic hole, too! I am thinking more at the top and less at the bottom? I think that darker spots just outside the hole at the lower left corner distracts from the owl a little bit.
35% of the 46MP D850 is still a mighty 16MP file, Hans. That’s a minor crop from my 20.4MP camera! 
The crop isn’t really showing at web resolution, Hans. I’ve gone under 10% with an image where I really nailed the focus and if you don’t tell anyone, they’d never know because web resolution is so relatively coarse.
This is a really nice image. The hole frames the owl so nicely and the half closed eyes work very well. I’m glad this species is doing so well.
Nice capture Hans! I like the framing of the tree hole and to me the subject is well placed. The body seems a tad bit sharper than the head to me.
