Alaska 2016
“I prefer to work with big alpha animals – elephants have a greater pull on me than mice. This is true also with birds and this has drawn me towards the American Bald eagle – a magnificent and emblematic creature with an astonishing wingspan of up to seven feet.
The difficulty is capturing imagery that captures fresh detail – the world is not short of images of this bird – indeed they adorn homes in America from the White House down.
The starting point for me was always going to be the wings – their size and textural detail. However, the more I worked on this project in Alaska, the more I was disappointed by my “in flight” work – I struggled to do the wings justice. The problem was simply that in flight, the wings do look big, but there is a disconnect to anything that gives real scale – a “big sky” does not help as it excludes much of what could help define and give context.
I travelled to the fishing village of Homer – a great place to spot great Bald eagles, especially in the winter and spring and sure enough there were a great number of eagles on the beach. It was then a question of getting sufficiently close to work with as small a telephoto as possible. Instinctively, eagles will tend to take off away from an intruder, not towards him and to engineer the effect captured I had to use decoys to encourage the eagle’s first wing movement in my direction.
Finally, it came off – and I think this is indeed a fresh image of a bald eagle. What remarkable wings and all the more remarkable at take-off.”
Originele foto van 1 van ’s werelds meest vooraanstaande fine art fotografen, David Yarrow.
Het betreft het 1/12 genummerd en gesigneerd exemplaar, vanzelfsprekend voorzien van certificaat.
De foto is ingelijst in een zeer exclusieve handgemaakte zwart houten bloklijst voorzien van hand gespannen katoenen passe-partout en museumglas.
LET OP! Prijzen en uitleenmogelijkheden zijn onder voorbehoud van wijzigingen en beschikbaarheid.
– Prijs Standard size: 132 x 142cm Euro 15.000,-
– Prijs large size: informeren wij u graag over.
Beide formaten worden afgedrukt in een beperkte oplage van 12 stuks, hand genummerd, gesigneerd en voorzien van certificaat.
