Come and Go – Montier Festival 2025: Category winner
2025
Montier Festival
Category Winner
Like black ink flowing across a white canvas, a massive flock of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) sweeps towards a roosting tree in Herwijnen, The Netherlands. Captured in January 2024, I used an in-camera multiple exposure technique to create this effect. By layering multiple moments of the flight into one image, the photo emphasizes the fluid, synchronized pattern of the birds as they move together. The dark shape of the tree and the solitary lamppost act as anchors, standing still against the rushing, chaotic movement of the swarm as they gather for the night.
Montier Festival · Category Winner · 2025