Photographing roadkill

[c.d.ewen]

Interesting MF work out of OZ:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/20...ia_photos.html

Charley

[photobymike]

Where i live fresh roadkill is a delicacy ... Reminds me of the way Audubon did his drawings.... Shoot or trap then kill the bird then make detail drawings.

I get entertained by finding some clueless low information person and explaining how those beautiful drawings were made. I had one old idiot thinking Audubon used photographs to draw from..... Jeeez the world is full of stupid people....... LOL LOL

pardon my arrogance ...but is so funny when you confuse people with some facts.....LOL LOL

[Michael Graves]

Where i live fresh roadkill is a delicacy ... .....

That's what Carl Hiassen says in his books, too.

[Richard Wasserman]

Not roadkill, but when I was in high school I worked at a natural history museum that has/had one of the largest collections of Passenger Pigeons. They were neatly arrayed in drawers in the attic. During the late 1800s these birds were in steep decline because of hunting and loss of habitat—so the museum set out to trap, kill, and stuff as many as they could find. Passenger Pigeons were officially extinct about 10 years later...

[E. von Hoegh]

That's what Carl Hiassen says in his books, too.

Yes, the favorite of ex-governors. (smiling smiley)

[andrew gardiner]

Photoshopped to death? (excuse the pun).

[bobwysiwyg]

Not roadkill, but when I was in high school I worked at a natural history museum that has/had one of the largest collections of Passenger Pigeons. They were neatly arrayed in drawers in the attic. During the late 1800s these birds were in steep decline because of hunting and loss of habitat—so the museum set out to trap, kill, and stuff as many as they could find. Passenger Pigeons were officially extinct about 10 years later...

So, the museum caused the final extinction, eh.

[Drew Wiley]

Back when the Nature Company was a going local concern with a nice little gallery (before they they became a mall chain and
bellied-up) I visited the art buyer with a nicely boxed and matted portfolio of pretty 11x14 color prints, but made certain the
last one in the pile was a shot of a rotting deer carcase. The individual carefully thumbed through the stack using approriate white cotton gloves, then encountered this particular image, and kinda stuttered out, Well... this might not
be so appropriate, uh, er... Somehow I managed to keep a straight face through the whole interview, and calmly replied,
"I wonder if the Sierra Club would be interested in this for their nature calendar?"

[C. D. Keth]

The natural world isn't always cute fluffy bunnies and sunsets.

[gleaf]

Culinary rule...
If the smell's too strong
It's been dead too long....