I took a trip with a school group to France over the summer to study French for a month. The third week I was there, I ended up staying with a host family who made it their moral obligation to take me everywhere they could possibly think of in order to give me a feel for their lifestyle. One of the places they ended up taking me was the huge chateau in their city.

As we were walking around, we saw a man with a trained owl. He was letting it go, then calling it back to him and rewarding it with dead mice. It ended up landing near me so I decided to take a shot, not realizing it was going to take off. Turned out a little fuzzy, but it works.