Chris Winer's Art

04/09/2026

Canadian photographer Steve Biro went to an Ontario raptor conservancy with a particular photograph in mind.

He came home with an image that would eventually be seen around the world. 🦅

On May 4, 2019, Biro visited the Canadian Raptor Conservancy in Vittoria, Ontario, where he photographed a resident bald eagle named Bruce.

This wasn't his first attempt.

Biro had visited the same location the previous year and imagined capturing the eagle flying low over the pond with its reflection beneath it. But the water had been too rippled, and his position wasn't right.

So when he returned in 2019 and found calmer conditions, he got as low as possible beside the water and waited.

Bruce flew across the pond several times.

Apparently, the eagle wasn't particularly impressed with where Biro had positioned himself.

On some passes Bruce came incredibly close.

“He was not very impressed with where I sat down,” Biro later recalled, saying the eagle flew close enough for him to feel the breeze from its wings.

Biro stayed down and kept shooting.

Then, for a fraction of a second, everything lined up.

Bruce flew almost directly toward the camera with his wings spread wide above the calm water. His reflection appeared beneath him, creating an extraordinary near-symmetrical shape around the eagle.

It looks almost too perfectly arranged to be real.

But contemporary reports document it as a single photograph from Biro's session—not an AI-generated scene or a composite of an eagle and a separate reflection.

Biro had taken hundreds of pictures of Bruce that day and didn't immediately know exactly how special that particular frame had turned out.

It was while reviewing his photographs afterward—and cropping in more closely—that he saw Bruce perfectly squared toward the camera, his reflection completing the composition below.

“I knew the image was good,” Biro later explained, but he never expected how strongly it would resonate with people.

After he shared it in photography groups and on social media, the picture spread rapidly. It reached the front page of Reddit and was featured by news organizations around the world.

A photographer can take hundreds of frames in a single afternoon.

Sometimes all it takes is one eagle, calm water, careful positioning—and one fraction of a second that happens exactly right. 🦅📸

Photo: Steve Biro Photography

04/09/2026

04/09/2026

Looking forward to seeing The Happy Mondays at the Forum this evening.
These are a few paintings from the last time they were here

03/09/2026

New Work

Setting Sun Stavri Greece
oil on board
2026
7 x 62cm

See my new work Setting Sun Stavri, Greece as part of
The Spring Collection Exhibition
running from 04 September - 23 October 2026
300 Wellington St Collingwood

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02/09/2026

New Work

Rising Sun Chrani Greece
oil on board
2026
7 x 62cm

See my new work Rising Sun Chrani, Greece as part of
The Spring Collection Exhibition
running from 04 September - 23 October 2026
300 Wellington St Collingwood

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01/09/2026

New Work

Headland Church Elafonisi Crete
oil on board
2026
20 x122cm

See my new work Headland Church Elafonisi as part of
The Spring Collection Exhibition
running from 04 September - 23 October 2026
300 Wellington St Collingwood

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01/09/2026

New Work
Brunswick Sunset
oil on board
2026
72 x13cm

See my new work Brunswick Sunset as part of
The Spring Collection Exhibition
running from 04 September - 23 October 2026
300 Wellington St Collingwood

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08/08/2026

Octopuses are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They solve puzzles, use tools and even recognise individual people. But octopus farming would subject these intelligent animals to a lifeti

07/08/2026

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of s**t. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a t**t was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

-Nate White

29/07/2026

UMass Chan Laboratories training the animal tortures of tomorrow today!

Inducing heart attacks in baby pigs, depriving ferrets of oxygen, and re-routing veins of emaciated dogs. An insider provided PETA with a shocking look at some UMass laboratories.