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snowy sunset

After several bone numbing months photographing this beautiful male snowy owl, the time came for the money shot. He trusted me implicitly, as some of these extraordinarily intelligent birds are wont to do if treated with the absolute respect they deserve. I slowly crawled many meters on my belly across the densely drifted snow to the ideal position at the exact preordained time. As the sun dropped behind a neighboring woodlot, I pressed my face into the frigid snow, focused and squeezed the shutter...

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Uploaded on February 6, 2017
Taken on February 4, 2017