road kill . . . post yours

[nikon_sam]

I don't have any photos to post but I did nail a squirrel yesterday...if he would have stayed where he was I would have driven over him and all would have been fine BUT NO he decides at the last second to make the other side of the road...I took a different way home...😱

 

[robklurfield]

Mind you, I don't kill the stuff I photograph. I mostly find these while bicycling. In 35 years of driving and plenty of miles, I've probably only hit a squirrel or two and maybe one bird. I try my hardest to avoid hitting critters.

I used to know a guy through business in Minnesota who struck a deer while on his way to work one morning. He put it on top of his car and then field dressed it in the parking lot at Control Data Corp. I took this to be an urban legend, having only ever dealt with this fellow by phone for several years. When I had the chance to meet him in person out his company's offices, I asked him if the story was true. It was.

 

[nikon_sam]

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of dead birds while riding my bike...

 

[funkpilz]

Thank god, I thought I was the only one who actually took pictures of them.

Anyone know how to avoid the bluish cast with slide film? Is it from underexposure?

 

[robklurfield]

some of the downed birds I see are too pretty for me to shoot. I just can't bring myself to do it. makes me too sad. odd, as my usual impediment is the thought that I'm disturbing, embarrassing or intruding on the privacy of humans, live humans. Apparently, something in my primitive brain says that the lovely birds deserve more dignity than the swamp rats, foxes and assorted other critters I sometimes snap. No explanation for this.

 

[ederek]

a great interpretation of the title of this thread, and a nice shot, too.

+1

..a tough thread. We humans..

Saw 2 roadkills here in PA over the past 2 days. Enough not to add to the carnage, let alone grab the camera.

Glad fences were put up across alligator alley in FL - no need for those pix..

 

[ederek]

I'm sure someone misses that bear....

 

[newspaperguy]

How about long-dead?

 

[robklurfield]

long dead is okay, rick. even undead.

 

[robklurfield]

in flagrante delicto

 

[robklurfield]

redux

 

[rya]

 

[nikon_sam]

Okay...again no pictures but I did see 4 dead skunks the other day while riding my bike...all were fresh, most likely from the night before...two in one short block and another two in the next town over, also within a block of each other...now that was weird...

 

[paulfish4570]

I have a buster of a photo coming. just waiting on a scanner ...

 

[robklurfield]

this one really saddened me, as a few minutes later I saw what I imagine must have been this doe's fawn wandering on the wrong side of a fence running between the road and a farm and looking rather lost and forlorn. life can be a series of chance encounters, some of them ending rather badly.

 

[robklurfield]

 

[robklurfield]

 

[robklurfield]

I'm grossed out by all the death, so I'm making a move, temporarily perhaps, to objects that were inanimate before meeting their untimely ends. this week, the fixation is on abandoned gloves which seem to be in abundance lately....

 

[robklurfield]

 

[robklurfield]

in looking closely at these, I wonder if they're a match? they were about two miles apart. very suspicious.