Soren Solkaer spent years photographing starlings and their breathtaking spectacle murmurations where hundreds of thousands of starlings move in fluid motion across the sky Watching this marvel is like sitting underneath an orchestrated swirling wave or a massive dark brushstroke flowing into a kaleidoscope of patterns In Denmark they call this starling experience Black Sun also the title of Solkaer rsquo s stunning book of photographs Most remarkable is how starlings instinctively follow their nearest companion flying so close that if one were to miss a beat they rsquo d suffer mass calamity However starlings use murmurations to protect one [... more]