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WARNING DEAD ANIMAL
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14-OCT-2004 Jeffrey W. Greeniaus

Death*
WARNING DEAD ANIMAL

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I don't know about this one. Not everyday you see a dead squirrel in the park (that has a speed limit of 20 km/h), just means someone tried to kill it. I did want to get a picture of the magpie actually eating it, as that would have made more of a story, but I scared it away. And no, I don't go around taking pictures of dead things all the time and apologize to anyone who might not approve of this (and that's why there's the warning). But if there was ever a subject that could use a shallow depth of field it's one like this.

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
1/250s f/2.0 at 135.0mm iso800 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time14-Oct-2004 18:29:32
MakeCanon
ModelEOS 10D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length135 mm
Exposure Time1/250 sec
Aperturef/2
ISO Equivalent800
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modeaverage (1)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program
Focus Distance

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Guest 18-Oct-2004 20:33
Intriguing. Part of me recoils at the image, but part of me wants to see a little fence of crime scene tape around it. So, it succeeds brilliantly. :-)
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Oct-2004 14:14
There was a shot I meant to take but never got around to some months ago. Underneath the upper level of Hwy 183 is a wide median where no traffic goes. I was walking along it, and near one of the supports for the upper level was two flat, dead animals: a cat and a pigeon. I really wish I had taken the picture, but this happened during the time when my camera was off to Irvine getting calibrated. When I got the camera back, the corpses were no longer there. -- Victor
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Oct-2004 10:31
I was going to get a bit of road kill in for the photoGRAPHIC challenge, in that it would have been a GRAPHIC image. Not in the sense that everyone else was taking their graphic images but might have been a good entry. Problem was I never took one! I think this is a worthy entry, a bit sickly, but certainly not offensive. - Jono
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Oct-2004 08:50
Very good... I like the angle, and the picture is good in that it's not gory or distasteful in other ways. Strong pose, and the white fur helps define the OOF body. Death is part of life...
-Anders/FretNoMore
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Oct-2004 05:06
Yes, that's definitely why it's black and white, harder to tell it's a part of a tongue sticking out and that it doesn't have an eye (it helps make it more like art rather than just a gross picture). Thank you for the comment. Jeff
Anna Yu15-Oct-2004 04:25
A strong image, all the better for the b&w rendering. I don't find this offensive at all.