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In the Oregon Outback, near Fort Rock on Labor Day weekend. It's so dry there that this hollowed out carcass showed no sign of rot or smell. Shot on Provia with Pentax 67 55mm, 2 stop ND grad, and polarizer. Feedback always welcome.

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Sep 18, 2016 at 11:00 PM
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reveal well the reality in the arid wilderness


Sep 19, 2016 at 05:29 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Skin and Bones


Nice one!!


Sep 19, 2016 at 06:24 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Skin and Bones


Awesome!


Sep 20, 2016 at 09:43 AM
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junglialoh wrote:
reveal well the reality in the arid wilderness


Thanks for your comment, that is exactly what I was trying to capture.
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patria wrote:
Nice one!!


Thank you.
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varome wrote:
Awesome!


Thanks V, glad you like it.

Heron




Sep 21, 2016 at 09:47 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Skin and Bones


This is good photojournalism. Changing climates are really getting scary.


Sep 21, 2016 at 10:36 AM
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Well,

There's plenty of dead cows to go around. I can find on a daily basis.
I remember observing one from when it was fresh meat, until it was just bones... Then it was gradually buried under the mud and clay in a Utah wash after a couple torrential rains until it was gone forever. That's how critters often disappear, nature takes care of the burial. Weirder to me was a complete, intact, sun bleached white cow skeleton I found once. That doesn't happen much. Nature won't let it be.

In the pecking order of exciting animal carcass discoveries, it's a more common species though. Like when you first start birding, and see a chickadee... My most exciting discovery was a pile of wild bison which had all followed each other and ran off a cliff. I think there were five. I assumed there was a lightning strike which spooked them. Another was a bobcat. Death in the wild is interesting as when you find a pretty and wild animal like that, all intact, you do wonder what happened.

They die of disease, poison, a broken leg, being shot by hooligans, just about anything. Sometimes other cows kill them too, if they are ornery. And a rancher might just segregate from the herd and dispose of it, for reasons only he knows. So who knows what the story was here. I guess it's whatever you want it to be.



Sep 21, 2016 at 11:02 AM





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