Recently on a couple Wild and Exposed podcasts I heard the Hosts talk about a photographer will go through their whole careers and out of the 100's of thousands of photo's they take you might 5 0r 6 images that they were proud of,  maybe a signature outstanding image of when you think of that one photographer you think of a image.   I have 2 or 3 I'm pretty proud of that are special or unique only to me. It might be light or the actual expierence of being in that moment. I know I found number 4 here checking both those boxes.

On April 18-2021 a few weeks ago I captured something I've always wanted to capture.  That was an Owl feeding its kids in Exceptional Blue hour light and I got it this morning with this Great Horned Owl family I've been following a bit this spring.  I was all by myself during this whole encounter, so nobody else got this.  I got there 1/2 hour before Sunrise, 10 minute hike in, as I was getting close I could hear both kids calling for a parent to bring in breakfast. I knew based on a couple prior early morning Great Horned Owl expierence's in the morning that this could happen,  a early morning meal drop off.  I've witnessed it once before Last year in Ann Arbor but the light was backlight and very high iso and the pics were crappy then. I knew when I heard them calling this could happen.  When I first put eyes on the nest I saw them on top yep they were very very active and calling. So hurry your pace up I thought.

I hastily quickly set up my tripod, did'nt have time to level it for video as it felt like something was gonna happen fast. As you watch the video thats when that funny two pics I memed in the video happened. both wanted to jump down first to be the first to receive the meal.  those pics were like 16,000 iso and 1/60SS wide open f4 of course.  its was not light yet.  Then out of the corner of my eye seeing it in person I see Mom fly in with a Rabbit. I quickly think oh crap I want video of this first. I go to click on 8k video and the R5 says you cannot record in 8k because you forgot to PUT THE DANG CFAST CARD IN BEFORE YOU LEFT YOU DUMMY!  haha oh crap. OK I knew I wanted 4k so I can crop in and zoom in post production,  the only frame rate with my SD card in the camera is 4k 24fps  so that's what I went with,  so no slow mo in this clip.  that's fine.   New to me at the time was my new Fluid head for video and it takes a bit to balance and counter balance it when in the field. so I was fiddling with that the whole time and trying to get it to be still. I also was shooting through the viewfinder and not the back LCD screen didn't have time to flip out the screen. so I kept on trying not to touch the eye piece with my eye but was still hitting either that or the tripod as I was recording so sorry about the jarring footage at times.  I was frantically trying to be smooth in a panic "holy crap" moment get this footage! moment.     

Thats it. I was in a out of there in 20 minutes. After mom flew off both kids as they do went back to hunkering down and napping like most owls do in the daytime. I walked away in awe of what I saw and spent the rest of the morning photographing the early migration of whatever we could find with a friend of mine.

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ps. the following weekend I did photograph and film these two in perfect sun setting light and I remembered to put my Cfast card in so 8k dreamy Great horned owl footage coming up soon on my channel.