The Eagles Have Landed
by Tami Quigley
Title
The Eagles Have Landed
Artist
Tami Quigley
Medium
Photograph - Photography~ Digitally Enhanced
Description
“The Eagle has landed.”
~ Neil Armstrong
~ 1930-2012
At 4:18 p.m. on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s voice crackled from the speakers at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, Texas. He said simply, “The Eagle has landed.” With those words, the dream President John F. Kennedy voiced in 1961 – putting a man on the Moon by the end of the decade – had at last come true. Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, was the first man to walk on the moon.
It was wonderful to photograph a majestic American Bald Eagle and Juvenile Bald Eagle after they landed on a high perch above the Little Lehigh Creek on an early October evening at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The bald eagle is both the national bird and national animal of the United States.
The bald eagle appears on our nation’s seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. Populations have since recovered and the species was removed from the U.S. government’s list of endangered species on July 12, 1995 and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the lower 48 states on June 28, 2007.
Background texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.
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October 9th, 2018
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Comments (25)
Alana Thrower
Wonderful capture! Fun to see the juvenile with the adult! l/f
Tami Quigley replied:
Thanks so very much Alana! Yes it was the first time I saw the adult and juvenile together :)
Wayne Moran
What a majestic bird my friend. Is the second one also an eagle or is it a vulture. It is pretty rough looking. :(
Tami Quigley replied:
Thanks so very much my friend! The second is a Juvenile Bald Eagle, yes they do look a lot different than the adults:)
Tami Quigley
Many thanks Nina Prommer for the feature in ART ~ It Is Good For You, greatly appreciated!
Steve Gass
AWESOME! Nice capture Tami, l/f.
Tami Quigley replied:
Thank you so very much Steve! I took this yesterday after having seen the juvenile bald eagle several days earlier, just very lucky mama eagle swooped in to get in the photo!
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"