This male Snowy Owl was a perfect find, but the image is a bit soft. It was incredibly cold, with cruel high bone-chilling winds. There was a lot of blowing snow and in these conditions I had to change my 1.4 Exteder II on and off my 500L f4 lens a couple of times, possibly causeing a bit of fogging.

Thanks to my friend Chrisitan Chevalier and his eagle-eye who was my partner on this expedition two days ago, December 29.

This owl unfortunately is no longer where he was first spotted. He had moved to another area to rest and hide from the intense cold wind on the 30th where he was hounded by photographers who made him burn precoious calories. By the 31st, he was spotted far, far away from the usual area, he is probably still on his migration run.

Canon 7D with 500L f4 lens, 1/1250, ISO 400, cropped in a bit for composition purposes.

Cheers,

Mike