The day I made these it was high tide on the beach at Whitley Bay. It must have been a spring tide, because the sea was hitting the sea wall beneath the promenade. The waves would smack into the wall and then draw back, revealing the sand underneath for a moment.
With a 2 stop neutral density filter fitted to the lens, I leant over the sea wall and started taking long(ish) exposures - about 1/4 to a 1/3 of a second - as the waves receded. Back home, I looked over what I had made and the water seemed to resemble birds' wings.
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flight
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feathered
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fledge
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pinioned
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wing
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soar
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ducktail
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/d7f29fa0-6193-4b9e-a440-edc7bdc4a201/5dd43145-790f-4817-be79-a97c996e2e8c_rw_1920.jpg?h=7c4de8cd91bfa259751eaa0ea0f05388)
escape