Photographed at The Avian Conservation Center, South Carolina.

Every time we photograph this, or a similar bird we ultimately have hundreds of images. With luck a small number are ‘keepers’.

The only way to work with these is to select a very few and then step away. Here, a month later, a revisit brings a few others to be completed and published.
Stunning photographs
Thank you very much. The owl here is better than an human model could be.
Beautiful, all-seeing eyes!
Yes, they do look to be all (seeing) eyes