dead deer

[low_delta]

Wednesday night, Cyn and I found the dead deer. I didn't have a wide angle lens on my camera, and my 3d image didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, so we went back for another shot, so to speak. Unfortunately, tonight the sun was on it, and so the light was harsh. So here are some from that night, some from tonight, including a wiggle 3d image.


It looks like it's flying. A nightmare with a flaming mane.






It was about three feet long, from front to back, and I'd guess it stood under three feet at the shoulder.


There's a bit of white fur at the tail.

Comments

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

It had nice teeth!
I wonder why it died.
The wiggle picture is awesome :)
I'm glad you posted these pictures. I was looking forward to them.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

The wiggle picture makes me laugh every time I see it. Cindy suggested the idea.

Being that it was by the side of the road near a bridge, I suspect it may have jumped off the bridge, probably to escape a vehicle. Not sure, though. One of it's front feet was messed up. Other than that, I didn't see any broken bones.

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

What a way to die. It looks like it was in a lot of pain but I think the mouth is open and the head is back from when the gasses were escaping. Makes it look like it was a dramatic death though.

Time lapse photography of a decomposing animal would be pretty cool.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I hope it died quickly. :-(

I think if you Google that phrase, you can probably find a lot of such videos. ;-)

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

What I find so interesting about these pictures is that this deer decomposed in a place where nothing seemed to disturb it. Even the hair is still there! You can't find a "whole" set of remains around here to save your life, something removes and uses or eats everything! That hair would be in a billion birds nests here.

It looks pissed off in the wiggle picture!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming it died during the winter, and was covered by snow for a long time. So then it dried out before it warmed up, and never stunk. The coyotes certainly never found it, and it doesn't even look like buzzards got it.

A long time ago I found a deer in the woods. There was nothing but the skull, spine and a hind leg, all still more-or-less connected.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

AHH! I had forgotten about how things decompose in places with long term snow fall! When I was in school and had to clean up the road ways in Alaska we would find whole animals (and once a person) intact during that chore.

I found an armadillo spine with the hips the same way up top (it is now in the front flowerbed with the turtle shells) one week, and the next week I found an armadillo skull in the same place. I don't know if it they were part of the same animal or not. The coyotes may be playing head games with me.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Since you posted that link, a while back, I found some tutorials on how to make animated gifs. So thanks!

[i.livejournal.com]

those are great! the wiggle is creepy, how do you do it?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd appreciate them. :-)

I take two photos from slightly different vantage points - preferably the same distance apart as our eyes - and then just make an animated gif out of them. Usually I do cross-view stereoscopic (like these (http://www.flickr.com/photos/14542870@N03/sets/72157624018249496/)), but I just figured out how to make animated gifs.

[i.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to see those. I like the gif, though. What program do you use?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Photoshop CS6.

The gifs are tougher, since they have to be lined up better, and the color and lighting have to be exactly the same, or the flashing can get annoying.

[i.livejournal.com]

I have cs6. how do i make an animated gif?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

1. File > Scripts > Load files into stack
2. Browse for the images you want to use, and OK. They'll be loaded into one image, on separate layers.
3. Window > Timeline
4. Click "Create frame animation"
5. At the upper right of your Timeline area, there's a tiny button that's a pulldown menu. Choose "Make frames from layers."
6. Beneath each frame in the Timeline, choose your time. For this one, I chose .1 second.
7. Change the repeat from Once to Forever.
8. Save for Web, choosing GIF.

That's for a very simple gif, where you have a separate image for each frame. You can do them where only parts are animated, and other fancy things. But this is as much as I know!

[i.livejournal.com]

thank you!