Our neighborhood owl

On November 14th I was looking up at our neighborhood owl and discovered the tree didn't have a lot of leaves to hide him... I went and got my point and shoot Panasonic fz35 and took some photographs..the following photo I converted to square format and did a little photoshop  to make it look like a Iphone hipstamatic photograph..

Then I went home and got my big camera, my Nikon d80 and 180mm 1.8 lens..Here is the result:

Everyone says that he is a barn owl..But he is a barn owl that likes trees..