How did you make the lines from which the birds hang disappear? I agree it would be tough shooting birds in motion with a 4x5, but to freeze the action. Wow! That's a really talented shot. Superhuman in fact.
This print was taken at a time when I started a series about, photographs not telling the truth, but I decided that doing a series was not for me. So back to my tea, prints that stand on their own, well I try. It was exposed and not shot like some of our vice-presidential lawyers. at a museum in Milwaukee Wisconsin, the strings that hold the birds are visible in the print, their complete absence is a digital fault.
you have the best way of twisting the relationship between digital and analogue / truth and lie - that last comment was gold. You should be more careful when looking in a museum, the lies can be overwhelming.
It's a good image - have you seen Sugimoto's earlier work?