On our last morning in Yellowstone last week, we headed to Fishing Bridge where we had intel that the area was a Great Gray Owl’s hunting ground. When we arrived, a group of photographers had already gathered and the Great Gray Owl was perched on the limb of a pine tree surveying the meadow below. I was shooting vertical so when it took off, the owl was immediately out of the frame. It landed on the ground a short distance away and I quickly swiveled the camera back to horizontal so I was ready when it took off again. I got several flight shots, a first for me with a Great Gray Owl. I was concentrating on the bird and I didn’t even notice the fence in the background until I looked up as the owl flew to another limb in a tree behind me. I wish the fence weren’t there but at least it is the typical Wyoming buck and rail fence that I first discovered, and actually fell in love with, in the 60’s when I worked in the Grand Tetons so to me it is an acceptable “hand of man” for a wildlife photograph.