Revenki's photos with the keyword: dead

"Demon Eyeball Sunset with Withered Bristlecone Pine" Artist Unknown 1976 Oil-based housepaint on aluminum panel

Well, not really...it's just a perfectly bleached and largely-intact elk skeleton.

Who knew that West Texas had such a rich diversity of insect life?

A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. Added some severe manipulation of the color curves. Really brings out the eyes. And not in a good way.

A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. I've always been both drawn to and repelled by the weirdness of this picture, and I remember being a bit spooked even while taking it. This version is pretty much as-is, only gamma-shifted to enhance the B-W contrast a bit. Time and exposure to UV and the stamp sand had turned the doll head's hair pink and its vinyl skin a ruddy grey. If you click on the map link, you can actually see the stamp sand on the satellite view, stretching a half-mile out from the mill and several miles south along the Lake Superior shoreline. Couldn't get away with creating a moonscape like that nowadays.

My father's trophy moose. 1979.

Dead trees in an old burn zone near Pike's Peak.

Dead trees in an old burn zone near Pike's Peak.

About every six months, a mouse will find its way into my house. They are usually met with all-out, scorched-earth chemical warfare, but as you can tell by the poison block he'd been gnawing on for the past week, this guy was some sort of mutant übermaus who not only ate the stuff but played with the block like a cat. The last straw was when he pushed it down the stairs in the middle of the night, and it banged against my bedroom door at 4:00am with a sound like a gunshot. The mouse had to die. And it just happens that even the poison-eating übermaus was no match for a clip trap and a little dab of margarine.

This bird smacked into my patio door so hard it sounded like a gunshot. Small wonder it didn't survive the encounter. Cropped and slightly desaturated for effect.