April 19, 2023

Sharp as Tacks
Whitewater Draw, Arizona
2023

When you switch from photographing relatively still birds on the ground to those suddenly in flight without time to adjust your slow shutter speed accordingly, unpredictable results can happen. That is, while you will predictable get blurred images, they won’t always be uninteresting as a result. I find images like this one very intriguing. It’s surreal and almost threateningly spooky in a way. (And that would be true even if I hadn’t seen Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds.)