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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Fifty Two: implying motion by using expressive blur > Booby in flight, Off the Brazilian coast, 2010
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20-DEC-2010

Booby in flight, Off the Brazilian coast, 2010

Our cruise was followed for several days by flights of Boobies, a bird that hunts fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. This one was flying just below the balcony of my own cabin, and I was not only able to capture it in flight, but in doing so, I introduced a sense of motion that contradicts the actual stoppage effect. It is this contradiction that creates almost a vibrating effect – both the brilliantly deep blue sea and the bird appear to be throbbing with energy.

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