I've always wanted to capture a scene like this - Snowys are usually solitary when wintering south of the Arctic, and fiercely defend their territory. A photog friend of mine had two successful opportunities in the past while I was with him, but I never got the shot and had to suffer his gloating.

Finally, I was my turn . . . but!

This grab-shot taken at the end of the day while limping back to my vehicle, camera not at the ready, very unexpected, very short time frame, setting sun behind a light cloud cover rendering the photo blue, too close for my 500mm lens for the other frames taken and lack of sharpness in the image. But at least this one is full-frame with no crop.

But I figure this is as close as I'll ever get to such a scene, so although not perfect, I am still posting it anyway onto my site. Not too bad if you look at it a bit away from the screen :-)



Cheers,

Mike