TITLE: Portrait of a Rehabilitated Golden Eagle

I photographed this image using the wet plate collodion process with a lens that dates to 1859. The rehabilitated golden eagle remained perfectly motionless for the six seconds required to expose the glass plate. My intention was to portray the grandeur and gravitas inherent in these birds of prey using the fundamentally flawed process of wet plate.

AUTHOR: John Huneycutt (United States)

John Huneycutt, an award-winning photographer and North Carolina native,
currently lives outside of Charlotte with his wife, Bridget, and their cat, Putzfrau.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wingate University in 2004.
John’s work has been shown in numerous galleries from Venice, Italy and Los Angeles,
to Scottsdale and Manhattan, and he has received accolades in juried shows around the world. He was recently awarded the prestigious North Carolina Artist’s Fellowship Grant
from the North Carolina Arts Council.