In memory of

When posting this image on Flickr and Facebook I titled it slightly different. Death. I realize now that the title was bold. Too bold.

The below image shows the tail of a male Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus). This exotic, amazing, photogenic, looking bird was unlucky as he flew against the window of my newly build house. Instant death. So unfortunate. I felt guilt and still do a bit, though I suppose there is little to nothing I could have done to prevent this. This bird was however still so beautiful that I decided to make a few images of that iconic tail, with the yellow tip. Decided to use a fairly long exposure to create more of an abstract effect and not to make it too obvious that this is the tail... of a dead bird. There is a bit of motion in this image. Some may find that controversial, some may say its meant to be.