Field guide No. 815
Sparrows with drifting motion trails
A small wake in the sky.
Four sparrows cross a pale sky, each followed by a long blurred trail. The flock is moving faster than the background.
Field noteMotion blur follows fast birds. These trails are longer than the flock deserves.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Sunflowers with sideways floating centersSeed heads drift out of their sunflowers’ petal rings and hang beside them, every one slipped the same way.
Upside down flamingos on the ceilingFlamingos stand on one leg anywhere gravity lets them. Here it lets them up.
Jellyfish beneath a stretched ice domeSea ice cracks when pushed. Over this jellyfish it has stretched like cling film and held.
The stratum takes flightDark birds rise from a striped canyon wall. The strata released their contents.