Gunther's photograph of the scene looks like an oil painting, with stark white light glancing off a soft blur of activity and still, sombre faces.
It let the artist control the horizontal and the vertical, roll the image or make it flutter, change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
The bird pictures, taken with the help of strobe lamps from specially constructed wooden towers, hang in a separate area — the better to allow for contemplation of minute details like the tiny open beaks protruding from the nest of a blackpoll warbler or the soft blur at the wingtip of a Williamson's sapsucker.
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details.
"A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details," Orwell had written in "Politics and the English Language" in 1946.
Notice how, as Orwell put it, "A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details".Wars sound horrible in plain English, so they have always generated a smokescreen of euphemism.
But over all, the regular Flip's video is a little soft — ever so slightly blurred.
"The details, the facts, they've become blurred, like soft focus in an old movie," says McNair.
The British artist Glenn Brown, short-listed for the next Turner Prize, is represented by photographs of paintings by Goya and Picasso that he shot from book reproductions, then blurred into soft focus.
Soft tissue landmarks are blurred, axis points hard to locate and bony landmarks are over-padded.
What happens by accident on it is something you can use deliberately later on to create blue skies with soft-edged pink clouds in them, background trees with soft edges that blur into mist, sharp wet on dry details in the foreground.
