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Published: 2006-03-25 10:19:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 29868; Favourites: 992; Downloads: 4592
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PsCS2 no ref722-705 BC - Assyrian Bas-relief found in the ruins at Khorsabad during the excavation of the palace of Sargon II (or Saragon II) has been claimed to depict falconry. In fact, it depicts an archer shooting at raptors and an attendant capturing a raptor. A. H. Layard's statement in his 1853 book Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon is "A falconer bearing a hawk on his wrist appeared to be represented in a bas-relief which I saw on my last visit to those ruins."
Only fitting that the tradition would carry on way past our understanding
50% detail shot - [link]
edit - fixed up the focus issues, added more foliage behind the bird, blurred the wing a bit more
edit again - more work on the bird, thx tascha
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I like this much more now that I realize it's a painting. My first thought was that it was some half baked digital stuff. With the whole falconry, the scene semed to me to be somewhat post apocolyptic, like a fall from grace. The city representing what once was and the falconer dressed in robes sybolized a... return to nature.
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It would also make a beautiful illustration of Tolkien's hidden elf city of Godolin in the first age of middle earth. Absolutely stunning painting.
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i love the building!
the landscape is awesome as well
great drawing
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Wow! This is good sci-fi stuff! I dig your work my friend. Very imaginative and so sureal.
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so beautiful. what's amazing is the use of light. and the building is so well conected to the ground. and the place is just so awesome. amazing work as usual
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amazing 
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wow. freakin' amazing! keep up the awesome work!
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Dear god...you just blew my mind....incredibly well done, i can't say anything else right now, i have to go pick up my jaw...
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wow that's gotta be one of your best (read: my favourite) pieces i've seen in a while, great composition and beautiful detail...the atmosphere is really haunting..but not in a negative way...has this eerie/holy/epic feel to it. And the tower seriously kicks some!
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amazing work! this is the type of art that inspires me to do better, to try harder...
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very very nice
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theres a failure in the grass.....left to him theres somthing brown which doesnt fit imo
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breath taking as always, my favorite yet... but i bet that will change with the next piece of work.
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Amazing work, it's so realistic I'm still trying to grasp it.
The composition is amazing too, it really pulls your eye into it well.
Wonderful!
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Wow I'm favoriting this. Fo shizzle.
I would've like it better if you made feather details on the falcon's wings -- the leading edges closer to the body that aren't so blurry. Right now it looks too much like gray putty. Very attractive composition, beautiful building and falconer. Lighting and color can't be better. Love the storm atmosphere. Oh the grass and shrubbery could be blowing in the wind a bit more.
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...thats truly amazing man. Absolutely beautiful. Is that the the ziggurat in the back ground?
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thanks
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Yeah man well thats what I though it was because you made mention of them and what not.
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This is my new favorite of yours. So much detail. 0wnage.
Great work bro.
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Awesome, feels slightly more different than your usual (a bit more colourful maybe?) The building is cool <3
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this is my attempt at candycane pallette haha, i really tried to pack in colour, make it all summery, still ends up gloomy 
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This is so fricking beautiful!!!!!!!
I imagine stuff like this in my head, and now...its reeeeealll...
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I'd say how much I love this and how great this piece is, but words fail me. Besides, everyone else has said it all, anyway. But then, you knew all this.
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yeah, the bird could have some more work, but I am a little nitpicky! You should have maybe used some ref. for the bird (haha, and that's me saying that).
Great work as usual! Lovely depth, foliage and ground textures!
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yeah i know, kinda owl/falcon hybrid with rubber wings
cheers man
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yeah, right. I feel like stagnating myself at the moment, uncreative phase I am going through kinda...
rock on!
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