This is my attempt at HDR I have posted both theoriginal andthe HDR picture.

Or is it Pacman??

I took this last week at the Veterans Day, this little Eagle Owl only 5 months old was intently watching the fly past, I thought that any moment it would take off and try catch one of the planes

The more time I spend using HDR software the more convinced I become of its usefulness, all the
information from any view is captured if you make enough exposures, the important part seems to be the control of the tone mapping and the visualisation of the end product rather than accepting the results given by the software.
I believe it is only a matter of time before real HDR processing is created in camera.

I've finally identified this little fellow!

Typical crab spiders are predators that lie in wait to ambush their prey. Though their chelicerae, or jaws, are rather small and slender, many crab spiders possess potent venoms that quickly immobilize their prey. Flower spiders, a particular type of crab spider, rest on flowers and remain motionless for long periods of time with their front two pairs of legs extended in readiness. They ambush butterflies, bees, flies, and other flower visitors; their venoms enable them to successfully attack insects much larger than themselves. They do not wrap their prey in silk after biting, but instead remain with the immobilized prey until they have sucked it dry.

These are probably the best two shots I did yesterday while out in the local park. While not too bad they are not as good as I would have liked. The depth of field is not very at all, the lens was set to f2.6 hence the depth of field was very limted, I will pop out again this afternoon to see if I can do any better.

But I can't think for the life of me what it is

ps - have you seen my hot shot yet?