> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Tim Bray > > We went for a waterfront walk today, and I took a picture that is > causing family grief. It was of the remains of a bird, slaughtered and > taken apart and almost entirely eaten by a raptor or (more likely) a > feline, left on a granite surface; the contrast between black feathers > and pink muscle tissue was shocking but I thought sort of beautiful > against the speckled stone. Fortunately I had the 50-135mm with me and > got what I think is a hell of a picture. Unfortunately my wife & kids > think I'm a sicko pervert for taking it (a dozen or more shots at > varying exposures, just to be sure, while they averted their eyes) and > even sicker for liking it, and are threatening me with defenestration > or worse if I publish. > > I'm not sure what to do. -T
Put a few mattresses on the ground beneath your window. Publish. Be damned. I once heard a great fluttering behind my head, and something whizzed right past me and landing on the pavement in front of me. It was a kestrel with a starling in its claws - the strike must have happened right behind me, and the kestrel proceeded to start tearing at the starling's chest, while the starling of course was still alive and struggling to get away. For a brief moment I considered rescuing the starling, but that would have been pointless. Kestrels have to live too, and that's how they make their living, so rescuing this one, now crippled starling, would have led to the death of another healthy bird anyway, so I watched in fascination until something spooked the kestrel and it flew heavily away up to a rooftop with the starling still in its talons. I also have rather an attractive photo of a dead cormorant (yes!). I don't think it's sick to photograph what we see around us. It may be sick to seek someof it out sometimes, but if it presents itself, why not? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
