Birds #1 (2009) Photograph by Gary Moger

La Jolla, San Diego, California. September 2009.
I am standing on the beach when the sky fills. One moment there is only pale light and open air — the next, a hundred wings are cutting across it, dark shapes spreading and thinning and folding back into themselves in a logic I cannot follow but can only feel. They swoop down towards me at the last second, close enough that the air seems to shift, and I raise the camera to meet them.
What draws me is the synchronicity — the way each bird moves as part of something larger than itself, the flock breathing and turning as a single organism against the coastal haze. No two wings are in quite the same position, yet the whole is unmistakably coherent. It is one of those moments where nature reminds you that order and freedom are not opposites.

Shot on a Leica M8 digital rangefinder.

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Materials used:

Leica M8, Hahnemuhle Photorag Archival paper

Details:

• Photograph on Paper
• From a limited edition of 50
• Size: 45.72 x 33.02 x 0.25cm (unframed) / 40.64 x 27.33cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Photorealistic
• Subject: Animals and birds
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