05/20/2026
And then there were three! A week after photographing my first Eastern Screech Owl in a cypress dome, I would discover a brood of three owlets in the same nest!
This was my most challenging photos to date. Dealing with the shaded forest and the waning blue light of dusk, I tried every trick in the book to get as sharp possible photos as I could from opening my aperture wide open to slowing down my shutter speed to 1/10th of a second while keeping ISO grain levels at bay. Out of the hundreds, I was able to salvage a handful. If only I had "retired dentist" money for an f/4 600mm!