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12/07/2004 04:05:29 PM · #1 |
Warning: Roadkill involving a deer (no gore)
I like to send these pictures around every once in a while...technically they're nothing to speak of, I guess, since they were taken over a year ago when I was just starting to get into taking pictures, but I don't think I'll ever get the chance to photograph something like this for a long time.
What do you guys think?
Message edited by author 2004-12-07 18:18:49. |
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12/07/2004 04:10:09 PM · #2 |
| You took a picture of a deer you hit with your car?! |
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12/07/2004 04:11:05 PM · #3 |
I took a picture of a deer I found lying at the side of the road...I only had my mom pose with her van :D
It's funny because my friend's mom drives the same van, and she hit a deer a few months back.... |
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12/07/2004 04:20:50 PM · #4 |
| haha, looks pretty cool. The deer isn't too nastly looking for most people I bet, I wasn't even sure if it was real at first. |
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12/07/2004 05:32:52 PM · #5 |
pretty gross if you ask me.
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12/07/2004 05:44:01 PM · #6 |
What do you guys think?
I`m a little worried about you :)
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12/07/2004 06:35:52 PM · #7 |
Reminds me of my VERY FIRST submission here....not too well recieved either.
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12/07/2004 07:14:47 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by dacrazyrn:
Reminds me of my VERY FIRST submission here....not too well recieved either.
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Guess people here generally don't like seeing roadkill... |
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12/07/2004 07:35:49 PM · #9 |
I like #2...but honestly, the vehicle usually suffers more than the deer. (At least around here!)
Few people would hit a deer on purpose, so I'm not sure you need to include the word on your photo.
Side note: My uncle (accidentally, of course) hit a deer with his Saab a few years back. He didn't know he did it until, flying over the roof of the car, the deer crashed through the back window. He stopped immediately to the side of the road. The deer kicked and struggled for a minute then jumped off the car and sauntered away. Front end damage = negligible. Damage to rear of car = appx. $2,000. Missed photo opportunity, priceless. =}
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12/07/2004 09:09:28 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by KaDi:
I like #2...but honestly, the vehicle usually suffers more than the deer. (At least around here!)
Few people would hit a deer on purpose, so I'm not sure you need to include the word on your photo.
Side note: My uncle (accidentally, of course) hit a deer with his Saab a few years back. He didn't know he did it until, flying over the roof of the car, the deer crashed through the back window. He stopped immediately to the side of the road. The deer kicked and struggled for a minute then jumped off the car and sauntered away. Front end damage = negligible. Damage to rear of car = appx. $2,000. Missed photo opportunity, priceless. =} |
People here do swerve to decimate local wildlife, though. The friend I mentioned whose mother hit a deer with the same van...she pulled over and watched about five other cars chasing the deer down the road trying to smear it across the pavement. Guess they don't mind paying thousands to fix up their cars just to make an animal suffer... |
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12/07/2004 09:12:23 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by sannok:
People here do swerve to decimate local wildlife, though. The friend I mentioned whose mother hit a deer with the same van...she pulled over and watched about five other cars chasing the deer down the road trying to smear it across the pavement. Guess they don't mind paying thousands to fix up their cars just to make an animal suffer... |
Free meat outside of hunting season. No license required (except possibly a driver's license). Takes all sorts, ya know.
Edit to add: Also, when a deer has been hit and is likely to die a slow and painful death, some people will actually try to effectuate a "mercy" killing.
Message edited by author 2004-12-07 21:14:11.
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12/07/2004 09:12:47 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by sannok:
I like to send these pictures around every once in a while... |
Why? |
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12/07/2004 09:15:01 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by yurasocolov:
Why? |
Just to see how people react to pictures of roadkill, I guess? I'm not sure, they were pretty emotional photos for me to take, I like to see if others feel the same way.
I once used them in a presentation on an e.e. cummings poem about how the progress of mankind is destructive to nature.... |
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12/07/2004 09:16:40 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by KaDi:
Free meat outside of hunting season. No license required (except possibly a driver's license). Takes all sorts, ya know.
Edit to add: Also, when a deer has been hit and is likely to die a slow and painful death, some people will actually try to effectuate a "mercy" killing. |
I once heard a story about a creepy backwoods-looking guy going after an injured deer with a knife, dragged it off into the woods....they heard a lot of struggling noises, then saw him dragging it away by the leg.
I'm pretty sure the guys around here do it for sport, though. One guy boasted about how if you've seen it on the Discovery Channel, he's probably run one down before. |
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12/07/2004 10:36:29 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by sannok:
Warning: Roadkill involving a deer (no gore)
I like to send these pictures around every once in a while...technically they're nothing to speak of, I guess, since they were taken over a year ago when I was just starting to get into taking pictures, but I don't think I'll ever get the chance to photograph something like this for a long time.
What do you guys think? |
I beg to differ. I am positive that given time you will find something worthy to photograph. Perhaps, just as I did, you will luck out and see a wonderful (living) creature such as this, grazing peacefully in a meadow.
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12/07/2004 10:48:53 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
I beg to differ. I am positive that given time you will find something worthy to photograph. Perhaps, just as I did, you will luck out and see a wonderful (living) creature such as this, grazing peacefully in a meadow.
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That is a HUGE moose.
Once, I did get really close to a deer, just a little doe wandering by a stone fence near a road up in the mountains...my dad got some pictures of her being about half a foot away from me. Too bad he either cut out part of her face or part of mine in every shot XD
It seems to be rare to find a dead animal in such good condition, especially around here.
...I'm making it sound like I have a fetish for photographing roadkill now...
I just think a photograph of a dead animal can say more than one of a live one sometimes. |
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