Death of a pigeon…

Yesterday afternoon, a pigeon crashed in my office window hard enough to die (but not enough to break my window!). This morning, I thought no more about it until I saw the imprint it left on the window pane, photographed here.  This is quite an impressive “last-live” picture that manages to capture all the details of the surprised pigeon, as well as a feeling of movement and some more metaphysical meaning of the final moment of this unsuspecting pigeon. It somehow reminds me of the representations of the flying souls in classical paintings, with this white opaque evanescent rendering (and also because souls are classically represented as doves). In a sense, this is also the ultimate photography, when you force the subject onto the photography plate!