bluechameleon
birds on two wires
Posted by bluechameleon (Vancouver, Canada) on 17 February 2009 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.
"Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free."
Leonard Cohen || Bird On A Wire
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Matt Sutton from Sydney, Australia
Just brilliant Sharon. I love the focus on the birds that appear to be smaller and maybe further away. This is really great.
17 Feb 2009 5:04am
@Matt Sutton: Thanks Matt. They were very co-operative with creating their own optical illusion :)
micke bergling from Sweden
beautifully with the silhouette of the birds (doves?) like it, the text of the Cohen is good
17 Feb 2009 5:06am
@micke bergling: Thank you micke! No, not doves...just pigeons :/
sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Exceptional composition....what an image.
17 Feb 2009 5:12am
Tammy/Cricket from Huntsville, United States
Wonderful words to go with such a mystical photograph.
17 Feb 2009 5:14am
Steve Rice from Olympia, United States
I like those little birds. The big ones look like they might be from the Hitchcock version.
17 Feb 2009 5:36am
john4jack from Corvallis, United States
Neat capture, Sharon! Love the strong contrast!
17 Feb 2009 5:38am
ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States
could be the drunks from the choir : ] best...jerry
17 Feb 2009 6:02am
@ordinaryimages: With those voices? Absolutely ;-)
Krims@nline.be from wemmel, Belgium
Very 'Alfred Hitchcock' :-) Wonderfull, well done!
17 Feb 2009 6:45am
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
Oh how very clever indeed!! Just wonderful:-)
17 Feb 2009 6:51am
Toni from Eastern Washington, United States
When this image opened, before I saw your title, I immediately thought "birds on a wire" (from the movie, though, not the song). Excellent capture!
17 Feb 2009 6:57am
yz from Budapest, Hungary
big wow!
I've seen many birds-on-wire images but never seen like this one ever
17 Feb 2009 8:06am
Mathilde from Fontainebleau, France
Quelques petites notes de musique en partition croisées! j'aime beaucoup!
17 Feb 2009 8:08am
k@ from Paris, France
A marvel ! Like in a motion picture (italian from the 50's ?), with that background like a screen behind - gives a depth and power that I enjoy utterly !
17 Feb 2009 8:20am
-1q5yChØt!c- from Persia, Iran
wow,this is very wonderful and amazing shot,we called this bird "Yakarim" or "Musa Ku Taghi" in our language ;)...
17 Feb 2009 8:23am
Elodie from Rennes, France
Very beautiful photo ! Love the composition, and the subject... really excelent !
17 Feb 2009 10:05am
gelfoto from Madrid, Spain
Although they seem to me doves, they remember crows and the film to me “the birds” of Alfred Hitchcock. The backlighting is perfect. The two crossed diagonals bring about a certain threat. Brilliant.
Greetings
17 Feb 2009 10:37am
mo.langel from Courtelary, Switzerland
Superbe composition! Un beau croisement de pigeons! :O)
17 Feb 2009 10:59am
Alessandro from Calci (PI), Italy
If you pull off another shot like this one, I am going to kill you. Seriously. :)
17 Feb 2009 11:10am
@Alessandro: You are making me laugh so hard! Thank you :)
zOOm from Paris, France
Excellent compo, graphic ! Well doen for this marvellous DOF. It really looks like there's a juxtaposition of images !
17 Feb 2009 11:41am
Peter Miller from Lichfield, United Kingdom
Could be the front cover of a horror novel, love it, works great in mono with excellent central DOF
17 Feb 2009 12:00pm
EYES WIDE SHUT from The library of my soul, United Kingdom
Truly an exceptional photograph Sharon, stunning on every level. Perfection to my eyes
17 Feb 2009 1:10pm
Laura from Birmingham, United Kingdom
what a fantastic image. this is great work.
17 Feb 2009 1:56pm
Ajay from Pune, India
Now that's really a superb composition and incredible black and white. Not to forget that small beautiful poem.
17 Feb 2009 2:23pm
Thomas @ bipsie from Breda, Netherlands
Nice how you've play with some basics here, the b/w and lines & silhouettes. Cool photo this is.
17 Feb 2009 2:27pm
Marcah from United States
Fascinating creation and capture. Makes me think of the Alfred Hitchcock movie. The Birds ":o)
17 Feb 2009 3:03pm
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
What can I say? Such an extraordinary image and brilliant composition!!!
17 Feb 2009 3:14pm
Daniel from Toronto, Canada
Great composition. This looks like something out of a Alfred Hitchcock movie.
17 Feb 2009 3:20pm
Susan from Savannah, United States
Excellent framing and perfect title. Well done!
17 Feb 2009 3:29pm
Diane Schuller from Hythe, Canada
fantastic capture and so perfect that you did it in silhouette!
17 Feb 2009 3:46pm
Kristian from Slagelse, Denmark
Cool! Pigeons - and you managed to keep them still while shooting. Very well trained indeed ;-) Love the diagonal you've found.
17 Feb 2009 4:56pm
Paco Díaz from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Extraordinary composition, you had good eye to catch it.
17 Feb 2009 5:36pm
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
So simple but wonderfully effective . . pigeons always seen to watching . . waiting . .
17 Feb 2009 6:36pm
NADINE DERUYCK from KLUISBERGEN, Belgium
BRILLIANT !!!! E X C E L L E N T composition
and of course Leonard Cohen....
17 Feb 2009 7:07pm
Phototherapy from Switzerland
Hitchcok delirium :)
I love the cross in the backlight, so narrowsly framed, well seen.
SwissCharles
17 Feb 2009 9:12pm
JoeB from Brampton, Canada
Unique in the crisscross pattern instead of the usual straight line of birds. Anything by Leonard Cohen grabs my attention, recently he donated $200,000 for relief for those caught in the Australian fires. Might be familiar with the film McCabe and Mrs. Miller which lines the soundtrack with the songs of Cohen, it was filmed in the B.C. interior.
17 Feb 2009 9:15pm
Thierry Masson from orly, France
incredible and quite scaring! these birds are waiting for my end to share my hide,
I can't fight against them...
17 Feb 2009 9:31pm
Nataly from Santa Monica, United States
Brilliant!! Amazing image! Like a shadow theatre with the audience in the foreground in the birdie world. I am still trying to figure out how the shadowy birds in the background came out to be so huge?
17 Feb 2009 9:43pm
Polydactyle from Canada
You take me by the feelings with this song by Leonard Cohen! Your composition is superb.
BRAVO!
17 Feb 2009 11:35pm
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
Very disconcerting....sort of a background/foreground shift. My eyes want the out of focus birds to be in the background but their size conflicts with that interpretation.
18 Feb 2009 12:39am
Ivar from Indianapolis, United States
Great song and a great image, the sharp and out of focus mix is great. Very nice.
18 Feb 2009 1:59am
baobab from Cambridge, United States
beautiful shot - wonderful composition and I like the subtle effect of the bokeh and the sense that the larger birds are somehow less solid, more shadows...
and who else could it be but Leonard Cohen (though this song always makes me think of Johnny Cash's broken ruined old voice version)
18 Feb 2009 2:47am
Michael Paulison from United States
Oh man... ominous. Running to a phone booth! The varied distances and sharpness makes this really interesting. Very nice! I can really only think of one thing.
18 Feb 2009 3:39am
Ian Bramham from Manchester, United Kingdom
I love this composition and mood Sharon!
18 Feb 2009 2:39pm
grant from kansas city, United States
i was singing that song as soon as i saw the shot - and what a shot!
19 Feb 2009 4:54am
Ilan from Israel
This is outstanding!
I mean, this is pretty common scene, but you took it! If it was me, I just pass it without noticing it.
superbly done!
20 Feb 2009 3:43pm
Doum from Saint-Alexandre d'Iberville, Canada
Its difficult to believe of an optical illusion! The camera cannot be deceived... Really nice shot. Bravo.
24 Feb 2009 3:24pm
dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States
OOH!!! the things i have missed by being out of pocket!!! oh BC this is just glorious!!! at once ominous and yet, magically enchanting!!! a PERFECT combination in visual imagery!!! and i am so thrilled to see that your are receiving the due credit / recognition of your simply fantastic photo talents!! bravo BC, bravo, bravo, bravo!!! :) x
3 Apr 2009 1:05pm
Pavan Kaul from Mumbai, India
Each time I see pigeons on wires this image flashes before my eyes...so powerful and haunting!
12 Sep 2009 2:51am
Nikon D70
1/500 second
F/6.7
ISO 200
200 mm