The Flying Crow Project

This winter the crows chose to use our pine forest as one of their gathering-places, and often we would hear their cries moving over the landscape.  In great flocks they flapped over the tree-tops, and Rebecca and I began a practice of photographing them as they flew.  Soon we learned that their black silhouettes told stories -- tales of wind currents and updrafts, songs of dives and climbs, and it all combined in a dance with the other crows and the tree-tops. 

This is the Flying Crow Project -- it's a collage of some of the photos that we have taken.  These are real crow photos -- enhanced only by brightening and contrasting them to bring out the details of their edges.  We became fascinated with the two-dimensional shapes captured by the camera when crow was photographed against sky.  It's a study of flight -- the different body-shapes and wing positions that give the crows their agility in the air.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

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