https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2010/12/31/sleeping-bird-horizontal-composition/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2010/12/31/sleeping-bird-horizontal-composition/comment-page-1/#comment-40132 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:56:30 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=3533#comment-40132 after posting the previous, it suddenly occurs to me what it is about the rock’s edge in the background…I think it’s the juxtaposition of peaceful sleeping and perilousness, the dialectic of peace and danger…it is a picture of loving “what is”

]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2010/12/31/sleeping-bird-horizontal-composition/comment-page-1/#comment-40123 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:34:59 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=3533#comment-40123 Both are great pictures for me, but if I had to choose I would choose the second one. There’s something about the rock edge in the distance behind the bird in the second one…a sense of the perilousness of its perch, or something, that intrigues and invites further wonder.

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