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Distinctly Montana Fall 2020

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D I S T I N C T L Y M O N T A N A M A G A Z I N E • F A L L 2 0 2 0 48 article and photos by CAROL POLICH W 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. WLS H O O T with

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