Airborne Muse

Canon PowerShot G9

ƒ/4.8

44.4 mm

1/320

“Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane…”

“To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening… The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it.”
– Wilbur Wright

Pocket cameras sure have come a long way. This is a hand-held snapshot straight up.

38 responses to “Airborne Muse”

GooseGoddessS

Mar 24, 2008 at 5:05 am

Hi, I’m an admin for a group called The Coolest Damn Cool Photographers in the World, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.

Awesome Capture!
You caught those beautiful feather patterns really well here!!

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angry shock

Mar 24, 2008 at 5:33 am

"-Look mummy, there´s an airplane up in the sky…"

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Josh Thompson

Mar 24, 2008 at 7:50 am

Great shot!

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kindhearted activity

Mar 24, 2008 at 2:22 pm

rockin’ amazing capture!

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Happy Tinfoil Cat

Mar 24, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Beautiful shot. The colors of the feathers really came out.

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jurvetson

Mar 24, 2008 at 3:59 pm

thanks y’all.

@Alieness: yes, a Pinkish Floyd moment… or as I think about the Superman trinity quote, this visitation must be a symbolic Easter omen… 😉

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brainstormer7

Mar 24, 2008 at 4:23 pm

it’s a very funny picture actually…… the composition is great!!!! the bird and the plant….. I just can’t stop smiling….. good job, well done!! 🙂

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zenera

Mar 24, 2008 at 10:53 pm

Déja vue…same place…same time…same bird…same jewelry…same photographeur…

March 22, 2008 at 1.13pm PDT

May 28, 2006 at 1.34pm PDT

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stimulating profit

Mar 24, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Does zenera’s bird have a mouse?

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jurvetson

Mar 25, 2008 at 12:08 am

Oh, it was a snake that time…. Great visual connection Zenera!

The rodent poppers are a bit more graphic…

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angry shock

Mar 25, 2008 at 2:59 am

Good catch on PF song! It was immediate the connection. In the movie there´s no lil boy saying that phrase -yet it´s heard-, at that moment there´s Pinky´s mother and a baby´s car -him- at the backyard in the afternoon and the camera opens the frame and points to the blue sky where a black bird flies away. Then the film turns to cartoon and the bird turns to eagle… which finally turns to a steal plane…

This was like the compressed version of all that. |-)

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mocachip

Mar 25, 2008 at 5:31 am

Amazing capture!
>>>seen on
1-2-3 group

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Wouter van Wijngaarden

Mar 25, 2008 at 6:46 am

Beautiful details , great shot !

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fenlandsnapper

Mar 25, 2008 at 7:22 am

Super shot. I have just been looking at a fiend’s G9. Look’s like a lovely camera. The detail in the image is amazing. (1-2-3)

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Mar 25, 2008 at 7:45 am

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da-ve

Mar 25, 2008 at 9:42 am

Great picture! How did you get the light under the bird? All the ones I take end up with just an outline of the bird as it it always backlit! Anyone…?

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haxhinexha

Mar 25, 2008 at 10:01 am

Nice shot.

I saw this great photograph
in the QEMD "Finch" Group

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Kringelum

Mar 25, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Beautifull

>>>seen on 1-2-3 group

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pfflyerpf

Mar 27, 2008 at 1:18 pm

really nice

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dramatic rabbits

Mar 28, 2008 at 3:27 am

spectacular image
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probable touch

Mar 30, 2008 at 6:51 am

A+++ Grade Photo

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rhetorical truck

Mar 30, 2008 at 6:54 am

Beautifully captured!

A+++ Grade Photo
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Steve-h

Mar 30, 2008 at 7:37 am

A+++ Grade Photo

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Chris[topher] Lin

Mar 30, 2008 at 3:53 pm

I like how the airplane echoes the bird. Nicely done.

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jurvetson

Apr 1, 2008 at 4:39 pm

thanks y’all.

da-ve asks:

How did you get the light under the bird? All the ones I take end up with just an outline of the bird as it it always backlit!

Ah, yes, this is quite tricky. The under-wing lighting is best achieved with a searchlight. They are available with a trailer hitch and diesel generator. The key is to hook up a wireless flash trigger so that the light and generator sounds won’t disturb the birds as you sneak up on them.

On a fine day like this, I should share her full story. It is quite remarkable. There was a glorious hawk that survived from the Cro-Magnon epoch (a rare genetic mutation kept her telomeres from getting snipped, and so she does not age)…. She had the most resplendent plumage, like a mural in the sky. Throughout the ages, she would swoop down whenever someone needed inspiration… tantalizingly close… perched motionless in the sky, as if painted in place… Native Americans worshiped her. Wilbur Wright found his muse. And then, like a mysterious alien craft, she would lift up and away with consummate grace… leaving an empty space in the canvas of the sky. But each year, she would return to renew the awe of the attentive…

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little measure

Apr 5, 2008 at 2:12 am

Awesome shot !

Music Theme: Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz at:
The World Through My Eyes

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Åsta

Apr 5, 2008 at 4:15 am

Fantastic! The plain echoing the bird really nails the picture..!
Music Theme: Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz at:

The World Through My Eyes
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{Kathy Ray}

Apr 5, 2008 at 9:13 pm

Fantastic…ktr
Music Theme: Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz at:
The World Through My Eyes

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JK>

Apr 5, 2008 at 10:49 pm

Music Theme: Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz at:
The World Through My Eyes

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Ran_

Apr 7, 2008 at 3:25 am

Excellent!

Music Theme: Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz at:
The World Through My Eyes

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PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

Feb 11, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Just came across this photo by accident and re-read your "kind of like Le petit prince story. Really like it.

You should try making a children book one day. Mixing your curiosity for science technology and the world, with you imagination and way of telling story…could be "un tres beau melange".

=)

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Temari 09

Feb 15, 2010 at 2:17 am

Stunning photo! I love hawks! Hopefully, one day I’ll be able to find one of their red tail feathers.

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Temari 09

Feb 15, 2010 at 2:17 am

Hi, I’m an admin for a group called EXPLORE Worthy, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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Temari 09

Feb 15, 2010 at 9:37 pm

Thank you for sharing your gorgeous picture!

Congratulations!!
Your image has been Explored
at EXPLORE Worthy group.

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Temari 09

Feb 26, 2010 at 12:26 am

Thanks again! I hope you like what I made with it.

Here:

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RanFlash

Sep 24, 2010 at 2:54 am

A beautiful bird in flight! Thanks so much for sharing!

I wanted to let you know that I used this image (with attribution to your flickr user name) in an iPad app called The DumDumb Exam HD:
itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-dumdumb-exam-hd/id392551011?mt=8

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thegreatlandoni

Jan 29, 2017 at 6:31 am

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Cool shot !

I found this Coolest image in

**The Coolest Damn Cool Photographers in the World**

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bsterling

Nov 4, 2018 at 7:27 pm

Great shot. FYI, I’m using this shot on my Arastradero Haikus page at arastradero.wordpress.com, with credit and linking back here.

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