More eagles.  Slow shutter speeds reveal essential traces of eagles in flight, reducing their forms to their graphic essence. The resulting images emphasize the power and movements of eagles in flight, doing typical eagle things: gliding overhead, arcing turns, overflying the nearby reef, grazing the water, or climbing to a high landing spot. They also invite attention to how eagles use their wings and feathers.

Each photo records a slice of time and consequently melds into a single images all the movements the eagle makes during that relatively long (by most bird photography standards) slice of time. Because the shutter is open for at least 100 times as long as would typically be used to capture a very sharp image of an eagle in flight, in effect the camera is combining 100 sharper images into a single photo. The resulting blur precludes razor-sharp details, but reduces the form and movements of the eagle to their essence. More forest, less tree.

Oct 5 note: There  may be a display problem originating with the website host (Zenfolio); I can't see all the images in some recent posts, so you might not be able to, either.  If so, please be patient, but please also let me know so I can try to get it fixed. Email me at [email protected].  Thanks.
 

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We close with a high-shutter speed photo of a single eagle feather, drifting down after being dislodged during preening by an eagle perched high in a nearby tree.  It drifted slowly down, nearly weightless, a sophisticated structure, strong but light, leaving its own graphic signature as it descended. Just for the record, the shutter speed was 1/4000 second (almost 300 times faster than the eagle photos above). 

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A few more to come. Soon. And then on to other things.