I recently spent a most enjoyable day at Eclipse Falconry (www.eclipsefalconry.co.uk) on a photography day organised by Scott Latham. I had wanted to shoot some birds of prey for ages, and this workshop seemed perfect for me.

And so it was. We were a small group and the weather just about held out for long enough, bright, but without being too sunny.

We started off shooting a little owl

The smallest of the British Owls. We shot him in the open fields to start with before moving to a bit of shelter, a barn with a hay backdrop.

The second owl was my favourite, the Barn Owl. The colours on a barn owl are absolutely amazing, and I don’t think I’ve properly captured the shading and details, but I was still pleased with the results. The wind had started to get up little and that had the effect of ruffling his feathers a bit.