Sketch Owl

This is a photograph, but it doesn't look like one. The heavy barring on this female snowy owl—dark lines across white feathers against blank white sky—creates something that reads as illustration, as if someone drew her in ink and she decided to fly anyway. In a moment where photography mimics another art form, she's captured in a moment that reality made look unreal. The more you study it, the less you trust your eyes. And that's exactly what makes it remarkable.