Tethered: Old Snapshot of Proud Homing Pigeon in Perfect Profile antique magic lantern slides or maybe timber

or maybe timber

I love the slightly strange shape/position of the red abdomen

no broken slides as far as I can seen

Based on the scale and nail at the front of the rolling base

Tethered: Old Snapshot of Proud Homing Pigeon in Perfect Profile antique magic lantern slides or maybe timberSomething about a photograph of a handsome and perfectly poised homing pigeon really does it for me a proud portrait of a rather phenomenal creature, which also brings to mind Terry Evans' gorgeous photographs of drawers full of taxidermied birds at the Field Museum. And here, with string wrapped, tethered leg, this pigeon feels like all the more like embodied potential soon to be released. A striking image, with the platform also looking one part