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Spotted eagle owl chick © Brian Basson Photography.

Spotted eagle owl chick © Brian Basson Photography.

Came across this owl chick in a fork in a tree in our base camp, while on safari in Botswana. For me, it was heaven sent as I could at long last satisfy my frus...
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Came across this owl chick in a fork in a tree in our base camp, while on safari in Botswana. For me, it was heaven sent as I could at long last satisfy my frustration at not being able to take photos of an owl despite many trips.
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camera

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

settings

settings

Aperture f/3.5 ISO 200 Shutter 1/200 Focal Length 130/1

upload_date

upload_date

Oct, 2018

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Awards

Zenith Award

Top Shot Award 22

Contest Finalist in Beautiful Owls Photo Contest

Peer Award

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Top Choice

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Absolute Masterpiece

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Magnificent Capture

+14

Superb Composition

+10

Outstanding Creativity

+1

Genius

All Star

Superior Skill

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I love this and I'm terribly jealous! My owl portfolio is 0. Zero. Nil. What a fabulous capture of this baby!

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Great work on this owl chick.

Absolutely perfection, what a beautiful capture!

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Awesome capture Brian! I think comes under the heading of "so ugly he's cute"!

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Exceptional photography

nice the owl shot , so very cute

so cute haha!

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Awesome not very pretty but wonderful to see this magnificent owls offspring:-)

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Such a strange bird

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Fields of lavender from horizon to horizon, as far as the eye can see. No, this is not France but Tasmania, Aus

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Photo taken in the Tuli Safari Area, Botswana.
A large cat, with a powerfully-built body and comparatively short

Giant Eagle Owl - South Africa

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Location: Tuli Safari Area, NE Botswana

This photo was taken at Mabula Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Red Hot Pokers occur naturally in all the nine provinces of South Africa. Kwa-Zulu Natal possesses the highest number of Kniphofia species, compared t

Green Tree Frog Portrait © Brian Basson Photography

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Shot taken in Makuze Game Reserve, South Africa June, 2016.

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Oribi Gorge is situated along the spectacular forest-cloaked ravine of the Mzimkulwana river just west of Port Shepstone which itself is 120 km south

Cheetah on the Hunt in Botswana © Brian Basson

The mopane caterpillar, is an important source of protein for millions of indigenous Southern Africans. Wikipedia

Mopane (sometimes spelled Mopani)

3,400 m above sea level and the tree line.

These two shepherds were high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, southern Africa.

Dirt Road Botswana © Brian Basson 2014

In the past 5 years 250,000 of these amazing cats have been killed for fashion. In the past 50 years the leopard population has declined from 700,000

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