The Small Bird

This project started about the second week of June.

I live in a house with a lot of glass, several walls are pretty much all glass. This gives us great views and a wonderful sense of bringing in the outdoors, but it's a bit rough on the local bird population. They tend to crash into the windows. Sometimes they are knocked silly for a little while then pick themselves up and go about their business. Sometimes they die.

This one died.

I left him for the ants to clean up and by last week they had stripped him down to the bone.

The skull is beautiful.

These images are the start of a study. These were all taken in bright sunlight at a little after four in the afternoon. At this time of the year that gives the light a nice angle but leaves the contrast strong.

These are the first four images...

The background object is a dried artichoke flower. Amazing texture.

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