Not a happy chappy

I've posted a shot from this session before but thought I'd show another.
I'm at a loss to find the words to describe my feelings when I see a sight such as this poor dead Badger which I found lying in the gutter of a very busy road on the outskirts of Coventry.

Using my Tripod and a wide angle lens I lay on the grass verge and did my best to record this heart breaking scene as huge lorries and cars thundered past only feet away. This is not something I wish to repeat in a hurry.

A sad sight indeed, such a sight seems to be virtually an everyday occurance these days, especially now that young rabbits, badgers and foxes are out and about.

Canon EOS 1v, EF 24-70mm f2.8L Lens, f16, 1/125, Fuji Sensia ISO Rating 100.

It always annoys me that somebody can hit an animal and not even bother to get it off the road,Not an original image but an image with a message,Over here in Switzerland there are big posters as you enter some villages asking you to take care as hedgehogs cross

Um, being low down on the edge of a road does give you a sense of what the wildlife must feel and see, and I have to agree with you - it isn't an experience you want to repeat quickly! Sadly, wildlife is a simple statistic in our greater rush to get there faster. At least your local council hasn't repainted the white line over it, unlike one I've seen of a squirrel in the US.

(Perhaps a touch more blur on the car number plate before you stick this in a library )

Good point Nick I didn't think to blurr the number plate

This is a vertical of the same scene (different cars - i have a version with every colour and type of car imaginable!!..only the one poor dead Badger though ) taken with another camera loaded with Fuji Velvia rated at ISO 40, notice the difference in saturation between the two films

Although sad to see, (& i do wonder how people manage to hit them so often...) Its good for the Kites!
Regards Rob.

Sites like this are becoming alot more common and I feel very much for the young which are left too die of stavation. It's a very sad world which we all live in.
Mick

Yes, it pains me a lot too to see this sort of thing, I suppose it is not always possible to avoid the creature as it comes onto the road suddenly. I would hate to kill any animal with my car.

Good documentary type shot here, and I think the vertical one makes the case a bit stronger than the landscape one. Saturation differences are shown to good effect here...I always found Velvia 50 prone to oversaturating when underexposed by even a third of a stop.

Sad that any animal meets it's end on the roads, but with increasing badger populations and more cars travelling on more roads it is something that is inevetible......much the same way that deer carcasses are common around the roads up here or pheasants, or rabbits or any other number of species.

Cheers,
John

Well worth recording, an image that I'm sure many action groups would be happy to use....

It always saddens me that here in the south east with our rapid road links to the coast and London and a blatant disregard to speed limits and anything else that may be around I see more badgers this way than I do live in the wild.....

All the best

Sad but what can one do! I prefer the vertical image and its nice to see a couple of environmental images on this forum!
Rene de Heer