This old male Snowy Owl is trying to break a low level flight record!

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens handheld @ 1/2000, f/8, ISO 400.

Formatted to an 8 x 16 frame, this image was slightly cropped to offset the owl more to the right, as he was leaving the original frame on the left. Again, this is my way of saving a badly-framed image.

I didn't want to over-compensate the balancing of whites, after all, the morning January winter light contains lots of cyan. The eye on the left was dodged to bring it out of a shadow. Background despeckled to reduce noise and to put more emphasis on the sharpening of the bird.

Cheers,

Mike