This looks so much like an AI hallucination… If it wasn’t for the other pics I would not believe it was real
That was one of the things that drew me to this!
With all the owl stuff on my feed, the algorithm recommends me AI stuff of all different quality levels, so I try to keep a sharp eye for it. But nature also never cease to amaze with what is possible.
It really highlights the natural camo the owls have, even without their adult coloration. It’s like the Predator’s light camo where you can catch a glimpse that makes you unsure if you’re seeing something or not.
After looking at thousands of pics, there’s still so much I’m surprised by with these guys.
Where do you find your endless owl photos anyway?
Before I started posting here, I was ready to delete my Facebook, but it’s really the only way the rescues communicate online, so I put all the ones I featured in my 50 states of owls work in there, so now I get all that. Then it started recommending me groups of owl specific, though sometimes not, photography groups.
So that gives me the bulk of my stuff. I think some people do not like that much of my stuff has Facebook links, but it’s my only real endless supply of original content I can attribute to its actual creator and it has stuff I wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else. For example, for tomorrow I have a video of people giving an owl an examination to determine the extent of its injuries. I have no clue where else I’d find that to share.
For things where I want to find a specific owl, like a Mottled Wood Owl where it’s not going to be in one of. My primarily US based rescues, I’ll head to Flickr. I still trust most of that to attribute to the original photographer because many will have stories of how they got the shot. It’s also what I used for much of the Owl of the Year, though I had to resort to Google to fill out some of the rarer species like the Blakiston’s Fish Owl.
My main goals are to credit the rescue workers and photographers doing the actual work, and secondarily to show you things that would be hard to find anywhere else, primarily on Reddit. I want you to have a reason to come here specifically.
Google helps me find research papers and anatomical pictures. The Owl-natomy stuff is my big original content for you guys cuz I don’t have camera gear or patience to get amazing pics, so I’ll try to ELI5 the research, as much as I can understand it myself at least.
Lastly I use Google News search to find news articles that can sometimes send me off to explore something I didn’t think of to share with you rather than the actual article.
It’s a lot of curation, and I try not to think how much time I put into it, but it feels you guys really enjoy it. All I want in return is for you guys to talk about things in the comments to let me know what you like best or to ask questions or let me know how the content makes you feel. I want it to be a space we can learn or just have fun and joke around, but also learn how we can help nature and support those doing this important work.
That’s probably more of an answer than you were looking for, but I always share the links to try to encourage you all to do some exploring of your own that you can share back here.
More of an answer than I was expecting, but I really do appreciate the content! I’m sure others feel the same.
I was just thinking that there may be some of you that may not be familiar with The Giving Tree story. I don’t know if they still share it in school in the US or if people elsewhere have heard it.
It’s a quick story that has such with me my whole life since whenever I first heard it when I was still in single digits of age.
It’s been called one of the most divisive stories ever, and it’s been used to represent many things to many people.
I had this post made up ahead of time before getting into a minor fight with my parents this week, which has also since been resolved. But after posting this today, I went and watched a version of the story on YouTube and thought it might be good for others to either revisit this story or to hear it for the first time.
I think it’s a story that may hit differently depending where you are in life, like reading Catcher in the Rye as a teen vs an adult.
If you have any thoughts about the story, is be interested to hear them as well.
Just fyi, everything after
9woin that URL is unnecessary tracking junk. I’d suggest trimming it down if you’re going to be sharing it like this.Thank you!
I changed it.
Wait. Those are actual owls in the tree? Not a crappy photoshop? It’s crazy what the right angles in photography can do in creating a photo. Reminds me of the perspective tricks they used in Lord of the Rings to film naturally but give the illusion of size differences.
Yup, it’s from the Ohio Wild Owls group page.
She clarified the photos are from Apr 19 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
This one is picking up more than the average 1 or 2 downvotes.
I never know exactly what it is you guys dislike enough to downvote anything on this community as there’s never anything false or fake or controversial here.
I’m not a mod, so feel free to say if you dislike something. If you actually have a valid criticism, I’d be curious to hear it. Stuff like the person in this thread asking to remove Google’s tracking junk from a link is useful and wanted. So don’t be afraid to speak out.
And if you’re just doing it to be rude, than I Guess continue silently as you were! 😆
Thought for a second I stumbled into /c/pareidolia until my brain finally saw the owls
That’s too cute to be a knothole! 🥰
