{"id":2222,"date":"2012-03-20T23:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2222"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:27:36","slug":"owl-workshop-with-andy-rouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/owl-workshop-with-andy-rouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Owl Workshop with Andy Rouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I would be posting some more owl photos before the end of the month. This has nothing to do with my field craft skills but everything to do with the Andy Rouse<\/a>'s owl workshop at the British Wildlife Centre<\/a>. Andy is a multi-award winning photographer, and his workshops are brilliant. He also has a wicked sense of humour! <\/p>\n

We had around 5 hours out with the owls, in woodland settings. The set-ups were perfect, the owls beautiful. Plus we had decent light which was a bonus. I've retunred home with 40GB of images (more or less), which equates to around 1400 shots! That is too many, I know; but heck! that was what I was there for.<\/p>\n

So these shots very barely touch the surface. It's a fairly random selection to introduce the birds: a tawny owl, a long-eared owl and a beautiful short-eared owl.<\/p>\n

This is just about my first shot of the day, and gives an idea of the setting we were working in. It's a tawny owl.
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Next is the long-eared owl; a rather stoic creature, but very elegant.
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We moved to more open land to photograph the short-eared owl. This bird was too pretty for words and provided some beautiful shots.
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The beauty of the way Andy organises these sessions is that you cannot miss the shot. He's on hand to advise, and everything is planned out to give the best opportunity for success. There was only one tricky bit… photographing the tawny flying through woodland.
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I will be sorting out more shots over the next few days and will slot some of them in to the regular posts.
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Thanks Andy!
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,980,1],"tags":[851,852,849,850,848],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","tag-andy-rouse","tag-british-wildlife-centre","tag-long-eared-owl","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-tawny-owl","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t