Starlings By Starlight. December 30, 2011
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: B&W photography, moon, starlings
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Well, perhaps not starlings, but it sounded poetic, didn’t it?
Tonight’s pilgrimage to our local supermarket yielded this image of a flock of little birds bedded down in the scrub trees between the parking lot and adjacent Route 2:
They sat beneath the gibbous moon for their ten-second portrait without twitching. It’s a miracle! 😉
Housemate and Friend Holly has me seeing more of my subjects in black and white, which totally suits this dismal season.
I hope you agree.
Little Bang Theory 
I like the black and white image. We have a bush of budgies down the block that I keep meaning to capture by camera. I can’t believe they sat for 10 minutes. Were they sleeping?
Happy New Year!
10 seconds, not 10 minutes
Eileen, they did indeed sit sleeping for ten minutes while I attempted to take long exposures with my camera wedged between my car and side-view mirror (with awful results,) then got out, set up a tripod and snapped the shot you see here. Then they began flitting around, so I guess my timing was just right! 🙂