The position of wings on a flying bird can make or break a photo, or at least change the look and feeling of what is being viewed.

This Snowy Owl, with only the eyes peering over a wing, gives the appearance of a mysterious character giving me the evil eye (despite being a little soft on the focus). Of course, this is one frame of a sequence of about four shots taken on this fly-by. The wings covering the eyes would render the shot much less interesting.

Taken with my usual Canon equipment using my standard shooting parametres. Slight crop for composition purposes. Although I did try to colour-correct the image, I deliberately left the wings cool - there is no law that says a Snowy Owl must be perfectly white. Because I didn't use layes (lazy me),I had to re-correct the sky colour once the Snowy was corrected.

Cheers,

Mike