Six pictures from Christian Spencer’s ‘Poetry in the Sky’ expose the impressionistic elegance of blue and yellow macaws and other birds.
By Christian Spencer| Published Nov 9, 2022 3: 30 PM
A hummingbird called a black jacobin in flight. Christian Spencer
Excerpted from Poetry in the Sky by Christian Spencer. Copyright ©2022 Offered from teNeues Publishing.
The real majesty of a bird can just be seen totally when it is caught in flight. In basic, this provides technical and creative obstacles to the professional photographer. Whether it is the hummingbird flying at 50 kilometers an hour and 60 wing beats a 2nd or a wedge-tailed eagle ( Aquila audax) moving over the salt lakes of the interior of Australia– when recorded correctly, they pass a peaceful and poetic image like no other animal.
Photographs of big flocks, for instance of Australian parrots, can look like impressionistic paintings filled with depth and motion. Hummingbirds frozen in flight together with dew-dropped flowers sometimes appear like 3D sculptures. The scale-throated hermit ( Phaethornis eurynome), while resting on a branch, can often appear dull and inconspicious, once caught hovering and eating fragile flowers, its complete elegance can really be seen. The blue and yellow macaw(Ara ararauna ) of Brazil is among the most gorgeous birds worldwide. Determining more than a meter in length, it slides and flies through the generally dry and severe landscapes in a dance of technicolored poetry.
Many birds offer the impression they are swimming through an unnoticeable liquid or carrying out an extremely synchronized ballet that has actually been prepared and composed through the echoes of time.