Counting quiet notes

Counting quiet notes. 2019.

Here the birds feel less like wildlife and more like marks on a score. The power lines become staves, stretched across a big empty field of colour, and each tiny silhouette reads as a note held in the air. The sky is doing most of the emotional work, shifting gently from pink to mauve so the scene stays calm rather than dramatic.

The photograph sits somewhere between landscape and abstraction. It is about spacing, counting, and pause, the way a group can feel both connected and separate at the same time. Nothing much is happening, yet the eye keeps moving along the wire, quietly aware of the gaps and clusters, listening for a song that never quite starts.

200 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4000 sec, ISO 64