Noticing xv - Xavi Bou, photographer

I stumbled on these amazing photographs today by Spanish photographer Xavi Bou (b. 1979). By profession, he is an advertising and fashion photographer, but by passion he captures the flights of birds using chronophotography, a Victorian-era technique used also by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870s and 80s.

He takes around 30 to 60 frames per second, and each image can contain hundreds of single shots all woven together. He describes the project, which he calls Ornitografies, as "a balance between art and science; a nature-based dissemination project and a visual poetry exercise but above all, an invitation to perceive the world with the same curious and innocent look of the child we once were." 

You can see more of his images at his website, and he is on Instagram. And here is an article that focuses on his photos of starling murmurations. Exquisite!

(I succeeded in finding a few of the birds identified. I'll see if I can't find more IDs, but for now, just enjoy the art. As always click on the images to see them large on black.) 

Black-winged stilt

Greater flamingos

Northern lapwings

European starlings

Arctic terns

Audouin's gull

Pigeons (at a pigeon race)