Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Dry Crimes


A deer died.  Maybe the deer perished in an ugly murder at the jaws of a mountain lion or a pack of wolves.  Clearly, a messy violence of some kind pitched the pelvis ahead of the jaw bone and beyond the pickup-stick scatter of ribs.  And the jaw bone has drifted too far away.
I came upon the bones while walking in the juniper and sage hills.
They gave me pause.
But the photo is the interesting thing.  I took a color photograph…and it turned out black and white, stark.  The long droughts and the light of day conspire against even the grass and bones of this world—the colors are slowly drawn away in a black and white end at the edge of winter.

--Mitchell Hegman

1 comment:

  1. Color is all about perception. And white is said to be the sum of all colors.

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