Houston Neighborhood Walk - Ventral View of Greater Horned Owl with Different Background

What we have here is the exact same shot of this magnificent creature, but cropped to 8x10 and with a different background.  Again a shot from Horsetooth was used, but on a different trip we took five years later, in 2011.  The technical quality of this background photo (taken with the 12 megapixel Nikon D300s DSLR) is much, much better than what was captured in the bookmark post of a couple of days ago (taken with the 3 megapixel point-and-shoot Fujifilm FinePix 3800).

To see the difference in backgrounds, click either image for an expanded view on your desktop or laptop computer, then use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard: