The Art of Gliding

The bird gracefully glides in almost perfect semitry. You can imagine this bird can hang in there as kite for ever usign the uplift wind. With this composition the photographer tells a story like the bird is blessing you from the skies. A gardian angel.

Gravity is challenged with motion in this picture. It does freezes that moment in time whereas it seems gliding can be for ever. The composition and vantage point is well chosen; looking upwarts to the skater in the air. To capture the speed with a longer exposure and panning is truly showing mastering this harsh techniques. The picture is creatively chosen to enter into the contest 'the art of gliding' as it matches the brief in all senses.

This photo is very well expressing the silent poetry and grace of gliding. The composition and cut shows exellent mastering of photography. The photographer makes use of the empty space, capturing the gliding bird in perfect harmony with its mirrored image and position it in the 'rule of thirds'. You can watch this picture over and over like it is a surealistic abstract. You can feel the air cussion of ground effect between the bird and the mirroring water surface. Gliding grace.

For the contest the art of gliding the brief asked to show silent poetry and grace of gliding. This composition capature it all. It is like a dream, you can glide along. Thank you for selecting this picture to share this feeling.

Silent poetrie and the grace of gliding is captured to the perfection in this photo. The composition highlight the fragile human beings that glide the elements in the rough mountain landscape. The contrasting colors of the deep blue sky and the golden orange mountains and wing matrasses couldn't be sharper. The picture tells the whole story by capturing two wingman from this vantage point.

One could easily dream away looking at this picture and making up a story. The glider is sharply captured passing the full moon on the background. For a photographer it need skills to plan such a picture, get the right vantage point, panning on the subject while having set the correct shutter speed. It does show the silent poetry and grace of gliding to perfection.

The grace and art of gliding over ice is marvelous captured by the photographer. It is a spectacular composition that expresses motion and skills of the skater. The soft colors on the background set the contrast to the concentrate look in the eyes of the skater. It appears post processing was used to upgrade this pictures as it appears now. It does say the photographer is mastering photography as well as post processing techniques.

This artificial red bird is sharply contrasting to the deep blue sky and white clouds. The diagonal composition highlights the grace of gliding. From this vantage point the wings are almost transparant. Like Icarus trip to the sun it is a fragile balance that the photographer captures magnificently.

These birds appear to use the uplift to glide in the moonlight night sky. The photographer must have planned this picture for the perfect timing with the vantage point opposing the moonlight, I can imagine. Well mastering techniques this cannot be a coincidental lucky shot. For me it represents the silent poetry and grace of gliding wonderful.

This high quality picture tells the story how birds gracefully glide over the water. The detail of water drops falling give the impression that the bird just tickeled its mirror image in the water, leaving a small wake ring in the background. Birds naturally feel the so called ground effect creating a cussion of air to increase power efficiency while gliding near the ground. It is a wonderfull composition of the mirrorred image like this. For me it is silent poetry in motion. Gravefully gliding in the sunset light over the lake.