The impressive monochromatic photograph entitled 'Take Off' is an archival photographic work on paper featuring a larger than life eagle photographed by legendary photographer and humanitarian, David Yarrow. The photograph was taken during an expedition to Alaska in 2016 where Yarrow was able to see the majestic American bald eagle, with spread wings, about to take flight. The crisp fine art details in black and white make this work visually captivating as the massive scale evokes an almost true-to-life experience of witnessing the powerful bird up close. This limited edition work is of only twenty three in existence and is signed, dated, and numbered on the lower front corners. The work comes in a sleek custom made black frame with light cream matte and top tier protective glass. Yarrow shares of his experience taking the photograph, “I prefer to work with big alpha animals – elephants have a greater pull on me than mice. This is true also with birds and this has drawn me towards the American Bald eagle – a magnificent and emblematic creature with an astonishing wingspan of up to seven feet. The difficulty is capturing imagery that captures fresh detail – the world is not short of images of this bird – indeed they adorn homes in America from the White House down. The starting point for me was always going to be the wings – their size and textural detail. However, the more I worked on this project in Alaska, the more I was disappointed by my “in flight” work – I struggled to do the wings justice. The problem was simply that in flight, the wings do look big, but there is a disconnect to anything that gives real scale – a “big sky” does not help as it excludes much of what could help define and give context. I travelled to the fishing village of Homer – a great place to spot great Bald eagles, especially in the winter and spring and sure enough there were a great number of eagles on the beach. It was then a question of getting sufficiently close to work with as small a telephoto as possible. Instinctively, eagles will tend to take off away from an intruder, not towards him and to engineer the effect captured I had to use decoys to encourage the eagle’s first wing movement in my direction. Finally, it came off – and I think this is indeed a fresh image of a bald eagle. What remarkable wings and all the more remarkable at take-off.”