BIRDS

There is something almost unreasonable about a bird in full flight, the way it commits so completely to the air, folding and tilting and trusting a physics that looks, from the ground, like pure invention. A heron holds its patience above still water with the focus of something that has solved a problem the rest of the world is still working on. The fish eagle opens its call across the lake and the whole landscape rearranges itself around the sound.

They ask more of the camera than most. A fraction of a second too late and the moment has already left without you. But when it lands, something in the stillness of the image makes the movement more vivid, not less.