The story behind the photograph
Taken outside of Yellowstone National Park(north entrance) Came across this eagle in flight but what struck me was the background and got this beautiful bokeh. It enhances the eagle flight motion .”
Wings Like Eagles · Isaiah 40:31 · On the photograph
“But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles”
In Scott C Johnson's words
“Taken outside of Yellowstone National Park(north entrance) Came across this eagle in flight but what struck me was the background and got this beautiful bokeh.”
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From the photograph The Wing Held Steady by Scott C Johnson, Colorado · View the original →
Format
Crisp detail on archival fine-art paper, set behind glazing in a gallery frame.
Size
Holds a wall on its own, over a console or desk
31.5″ × 21.5″ on the wall, with the frame
Good detail. Made to be seen from a step or two back, as a piece this size usually is.
Above 0″, printed from an enlarged file
The piece was developed in our studio using digital and AI tools, and the same tools enlarged it for large-format printing. At these sizes fine detail is interpreted rather than photographed.
Frame: Natural
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- Each piece is printed for you, so we can’t take back an undamaged one.
An adult bald eagle glides low and level above a frozen marsh, wings fully spread and primaries fanned, head turned slightly toward the ground below. Behind it the ice and dead sedge dissolve into a soft wash of mauve and ochre, with a line of bare winter trees standing dim on the far shore. Flat overcast light keeps the whole scene muted, so the white head and tail and the yellow bill carry nearly all the contrast in the frame.
Why these words
The bird is not flapping but gliding, wings held wide over a cold, spent landscape of snow and dead grass, which is exactly the image of strength renewed when everything else is at its lowest ebb.
The photograph that inspired this piece
It begins with an original photograph by Scott C Johnson of a real place. This version was developed from that photograph in our studio, using digital and AI tools guided by the original’s own composition, and these words set over the finished picture. How these are made.
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