Posted on 01/10/2020 7:39:42 AM PST by AFreeBird
Dark, sinuous lines float in a blue sky. It seems straight out of sci-fi or fantasy—a fantastical spacecraft transitioning into its cloaking shield, or a mythical beast in flight. In reality, it is cranes at Gallocanta Lake in Spain, dozens of them, traveling between where they feed in the fields and where they sleep in the water. It is many frames, compressed to a single moment. Catalan photographer Xavi Bou is fascinated with birds and the challenge of making their flight patterns visible. He has combined his passions for nature, art, and technology to create these images which he calls “ornitography,” from the Greek ornitho- (“bird”) and graphe (“drawing”).
The photographer learned to appreciate nature from childhood walks with his grandfather in the town Prat del Llobregat, where Bou grew up. It is located in the Llobregat Delta, one of the most important wetland zones in the region around Barcelona, and a key spot along bird migration routes. “He made me look at how to differentiate them [the birds],” Bou writes, about his grandfather, in an email, “how they were not the same throughout the year.” ....
(Excerpt) Read more at atlasobscura.com ...
Let’s take a brief respite from palace intrigues, rumors of war and the Middle East.
Sculpted by Nature - Imaged by Man.
Fascinating! Thanks for the link. There was a lovely movie several years back about birds. Does anyone remember its title?
You’d have to be a little more specific.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds?
Lovely wouldn’t normally be an apt description of a Hitchcock flick.
WOW! Cool pics. Thanks. ‘gunner is cool, also. : )
Atlas Obscura is an interesting site. All kinds of really different topics
Some of those pictures are kind of scary.
Sorry as much as I love birds and good photography I found this to be pretty uninteresting and a bit gimmicky. Just my opinion.
Unlike humblegunner, I am not offended by excerpting long or otherwise bandwidth-intensive articles that are not otherwise prohibited from being posted in full.
You might be thinking of Fly Away Home, a young girl raises some Canadian geese and has to teach them to fly south for the winter. They had some unusual ways to photograph this, cameras on some of the geese so it looked like you were in their group flying with them. Nice movie and very innovative for the time.
Freepers, I can count on you guys to always crack me up. Diggin Mel Brooks in “High Anxiety”. hahaha
Cool site. Thanks.
Beautiful art from nature. Thanks for posting!
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
I think I remember that. They used an ultra-light to tech them to fly in formation, and then took them on a migration.
Thanks for posting - never would have seen it otherwise!
Looks a lot like the long exposure shots I used to take way back in my Pentax 35mm days. You could get some very interesting effects with a tripod and a shutter release cable.
Looks like a number of strobed images superimposed.
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