snapped a bird as it flew overhead with overexposed manual settings. the settings were for something else, but serendipity worked its magic.
crop, curves, levels
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the title came from my poem:
Bird, there is no instance of your flight,
no room beside the cloud in your big eye.
You broke the blue glass, convinced the sun
to hide from the white sky while the day died.
Bird, your wings have churned desire to butter,
stuck me in the makings of your motion.
I remain at the bottom of a nothing
that your feathery devices grip, and rise.
No water can wash you from these surfaces,
no wave from any depth of me can reach
the flat forever ricochet of sight,
the marvel of your life, like crystal dreams
that overtook reality and thought
and left behind kaleidoscopic lights.
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Some heavy purple fringing makes this appear unnatural. Also, for an OOF subject, the edge of the bird against the sky is a fairly hard edge. It does not come off to me very well, I'm afraid.
Edited for phat phingers. I hate when I misspell things.
Something intriguing about the leading cyan line on the bird, as though it is shifting planes. I'm normally not fond of pure white/black backgrounds, but it kinda works here.
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