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Published: 2004-05-24 03:02:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 268; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 34
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a baby bird dying on my porch i wasted over 100 damn pics on this bird and i got some great shots that make it worth it... expect moreRelated content
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Ok, this is just me - I'm a big time animal lover.
Did the thought ever occur to you to feed it some ground up pain pills and just snap it's neck once it dozed off? I think it's kind of cruel to let a creature suffer, slowly dying for two days, so you could get some good shots. Not trying to come off as a jerk here, we all have different priorities, but what compelled you to let it sit there crying while you snapped away?
They are good shots - I just don't think that anything makes that kind of pain worthwhile.
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first off, I can agree to some that art is an expression of pain, joy, and all those other emotions that we are unable to find words for - however, on that note it is an internal pain or the capturing of the pain of another who is aware and does not object to the capturing of the pain for art - as in the photojournalist who spend time in third world countries. This was a bird. A poor dying bird. If you have no "right" to determine the outcome of this bird's suffering, what "right" do you have to exploit it for your own creative gain?
I understand that death and the act of dying can be a beautiful thing - artistically speaking - and if you had captured these images and then given that bird the release it so sorely needed (and gained after two more days of suffering) that MIGHT be a bit more understandable ... but not by much.
My objection to the art is not it creative and artistic gravity. It pulls very fiercely at the emotions and from a completely technical viewpoint the composition and lighting of the piece is exquisite. I only call into question the morality of an artist who would make this kind of judgement call.
Art, while a mean for us to express a depth of emotion and experience that we are unable to universally comminucate through any other means, should take a back seat to the reality of suffering and pain around us.
Be a human first. An artist second.
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no pain for art? what is art but (among other things) an expression of pain... for that matter what is life but an expression of pain?
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i wanted to do something of that nature... but then i thought about it and what right have i to determine the its life is useless or that it has no will to live?
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that's so...morbid. too bad i like birds too much...*sniff*
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i love the anatomy of this creature, the fold around the corner of the mouth, his eye, and the little spray of feathers on his cheek. a beautiful thing.
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Dieing birds upset me, there were four right outside our door last week
Anyway, well shot, nice contasts and compostion
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The face! The eyes!
Is...is it...dead yet? I'm afraid to ask.
If so, bury it for God's sake...
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tis dead now lived for two days.... was crying the entire time... i sat with it and took pictures until i ran out of film ... then i fed it and made a nest...
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Glad you were there for it.
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Amazing, there is so much emotion portrayed though the eyes. It was defiantly worth the effort for this picture.
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thanks for the fav and the compliments... but check out the other three bird pics i think some of them are better
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