15 / 365: Social Network and a Murder

15 / 365: Social Network and a Murder
Originally uploaded by Chris Hlady

There were hundreds of crows flying around near my apartment today. They were slowly cycling between several trees and rooftops... they'd land somewhere, hang out for a minute, and head somewhere else.

I like how there appear to be small clusters of crows together and looking at each other, and that every bird is at the end of a leading line :-) Perhaps being influenced by looking at social contact graphs frequently at work, the silhouetting makes the tree look like a giant, messy contact graph to me.

I wasn't initially happy with the shots I got, but I figured rather than spend time taking other shots indoors and after dark like much of the rest of my project 365 I'd mess around with this image in post-processing and see what I could come up with.