A raptor crossed the white of an overcast sky and I resisted the urge to crop it large. Small in the frame is how you actually see a bird like this — a dark signature moving across nothing. The exposure burnt the cloud away entirely. What is left is the shape of flight, and room for it.

Small Dark Wings
Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa · December 2022
1D X Mark II, 400 millimetres, f 5.6, 1/500 of a second, ISO 320