A little grainy, but........ a FANTASTIC shot !!! Congrats, Simon. I keep this one :-)

Very Great shot,Agree with Pierre.Well done!!!.Simon.

puuuuu!! this is an awesome shot... great timing!!
9/10 Si... this is just perfect!

Thank you very much, Pierre, Joost and Pim - glad you like him:-)

excellent. agree with pierre. excellent timing

Nice shot.

Wow Simon. You got to have one good telephoto lense for that SLR. :) Great cature.

You must have been really on the ball to catch this one in flight. Great job.

Great action Simon...congratulations:-)

I love the color on his feathers. Agree with the others, this is very hard to capture.

Thank you all very much. Spook was a "tame" barn owl who lived at a Bird of Prey centre and appeared in several television programs and films. It was a lot easier to get this shot of him at one of his flying demonstrations than it would be with a wild owl!

Nice capture Si

Thanks Clayton - glad you liked it :-)

awesome shot

Magical shot Si!

Great "Wing Shot"

Thank you Aislinn, Alex and Steven :-)

tough shot good job

sweet capture. Birds in flight are hard to do well.

It is a tad grainy,but I think that makes it all the more "you are there-ish". Would it not be lovely to see the entire series of shots from which you selected this? Perhaps set out as a tryptich (did I spell that correctly?) Anyhow I love this photo and I thank you.

Thank you all. Unfortunately this wasn't from a series of shots, dusa, it was just a fortunate one-off....

In air shots are great!

Was just looking at the owl pics..What an in flight shot

what a capture.. one word: magnificent! as i said in one post before, you DO have a sixth sense about these things, don't you? :)))
it is a bit blurry (of course, who could make a clear shot...), but the texture of his beautiful feathers is visible.. i think it's a breathtaking image because of its dynamic look.. after all, it's an ancient human dream to fly as free as a bird.. thank you for sharing this image with us.. it looks like dreams came true ;)

Beautiful capture of this barn owl! What a wonderful opportunity for people to see just how amazing these birds are! Thanks for sharing this photo!

Thank you all again :-)

thought i'd already voted on this one, here's a late 10

Beautiful photo of a gorgeous bird, thanks for sharing.

Auline

Owls are one of my favorite animals. Amazing capture!!
Love it! :D

Thats not Spock! Oh, spook, nvm. Nice finger pressing button technique. Maybe some sharpening in photoshop [infranview, etc] might make it less blurry..but then you'll get the cheesy sharpened look.