Delta Eagle
When you spend all day photographing two guys on their mud boats, getting soaked in murky water and smelling of farts, they tend to make requests when you see something you want to photograph. Thankfully, these were friends who know I’ll do anything for an eagle.
This eagle was roughly a hundred and fifty yards off in the top of a dead tree with its mate. Just as I was starting to capture it, it flew up, giving me this amazing wingspan and composition.
Unfortunately, at the time, my skills to bring out details and paint were virtually non-existent. But in 2022, after getting a ton of practice in, I was able to create this painting seven years later. I turned a cloudy day with no light into this sunset painting of an eagle.
Goals, folks. Goals.