The bird is a painting I did on canvas and glued to plywood and then silhouetted. The dog is a local. The place is Sarah Lawrence College. The shot is an early example of staged photography. It is also an example of an artist photographing his painting on location. br Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish and then in Graduate School for Art History with famed critic E.C. Goossen. He went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director for Print and TV, and an Art Collector and Gallerist - We Ship Internationally ! Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper