Another of my hard to take annual moon photos with a Snowy Owl. The sun behind me had just dropped off the horizon as the moon came up. As usual, impossible to get both bird and moon in focus due to the zoom lens used and distance to the bird. Therefore, it is one or the other.

Canon 5D Mark III with my 500L f4 lens handheld as usual @ 1/1000, f4, ISO 800, +3 exposure compensation.

Cropped for compositions purposes. Two annoying small branches at the bottom of the photo cloned away. Because the whole of the image was almost a monotone cyan/blue, I selected only the bird to reduce the cyan/blue to bring it closer to a white. Therefore, a miniscule blur brush as applied along the outline of the bird to reduce the resulting contrast line between bird and sky.

Cheers,

Mike