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article and photos by CAROL POLICH
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HAT IS IT ABOUT OWLS THAT INTRIGUES US?
Is it their brilliant yellow eyes and their bulky
looking bodies? Maybe it's their elusiveness, the fact
that they're not readily seen like other birds of prey.
Photographing them and creating compositional impact
is a tough challenge. Catching the owls perched in a tree
with mouths agape and branches hanging over their face
is a photographer's nightmare. Flight would be great if
it's not at night. But an owl perched on an old fence post,
with soft, ethereal grasses rising to the talons, gives a
more aesthetic photo.
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