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This moment came from a falconry demonstration at a Renaissance Festival in Washington state. The falconer had the hawk on the glove and was presenting the bird to the crowd, wings fully spread in a classic display posture.
Falconry is an ancient hunting partnership between a person and a trained raptor. At Renaissance festivals it is usually shown as a living-history demonstration—explaining how the birds are handled, how they return to the glove, and how their flight and footing were used for centuries to take game. The heavy glove protects the falconer’s arm from the talons, and the bird’s spread wings are both a balance posture and a striking visual.
Here the hawk fills the frame with open wings while still under the falconer’s control, capturing the brief, controlled intensity of the demonstration. Printed in-house on pearlescent metallic paper with archival pigment inks.
This moment came from a falconry demonstration at a Renaissance Festival in Washington state. The falconer had the hawk on the glove and was presenting the bird to the crowd, wings fully spread in a classic display posture.
Falconry is an ancient hunting partnership between a person and a trained raptor. At Renaissance festivals it is usually shown as a living-history demonstration—explaining how the birds are handled, how they return to the glove, and how their flight and footing were used for centuries to take game. The heavy glove protects the falconer’s arm from the talons, and the bird’s spread wings are both a balance posture and a striking visual.
Here the hawk fills the frame with open wings while still under the falconer’s control, capturing the brief, controlled intensity of the demonstration. Printed in-house on pearlescent metallic paper with archival pigment inks.