Sunday 28 February 2021

Video shows the shape of a flock of starlings evading a hawk

Screenshot of "Ornithographies" video by Xavi Bou

Xai Bou is a photographer who takes photos not of birds, but of the movements of birds — the shapes they trace as they move through the sky.

A while ago he did a project called Ornithographies, in which he'd take rapid-fire photos — several times a second — and stitch them together to make a photo that shows a bird's complex flight path. — Read the rest