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Maxrunn — death encircles us all
Published: 2005-08-03 13:15:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2074; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 125
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Some may view this picture as sick... So don't look OR comment, if you feel that way.This represents some very deep things to me. Death. Life. To try and explain it all would be impossible.
The adult rabbit skeleton is the result of my car hitting the poor thing. I had never hit an animal before I don't wish to ever again.
The baby rabbit was one I found alive in a window well half starved and suffering from heat exhaustion.
Something I killed and something I couldn't save.
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I feel so sorry for those rabbits, but not many people get the meaning to this. Its a very meaningful picture and a very powerful one. I hope you dont feel too bad about the rabbits...
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Why was the baby on in the window?
This is such an emotional picture. Well done for showing remorse, not many people do
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That is so sad but oddly beautiful.
I like the fact that you moved what you hit so it would have to be run over again.
I have a tendency to move road kill to more peacful places out of respect.
Beautiful picture though
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yeah I took it home and put it out where all my family pets usually are buried. At least there it will help the flowers instead of on the road where it just gets flattened over and over
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This is such a great picture, but I think I'm going to cry....
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Last summer on the way to view some fireworks for the end of a week long carnival we have around our area, my fiance and I drove by a rabbit that was laying halfway between the car lane and the bike lane. It was trying with all it's might to move, but it's back legs were still. So, turning around the car, we went back for it.
It made me wonder how long it had been there before someone actually cared to do anything. Cars and bicyclists went by without a second thought while we grabbed the rabbit.
While we drove through the traffic to get to the clinic a few miles away, I watched as he/she faded away in my arms. By the time we got there, the rabbit was already gone (and the clinic was closed anyways).
I cried as we made our way back home to drop off the body, so we could bury it later.
We went to go meet up with my dad for the fireworks, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. I couldn't get the rabbit's eyes out of my head.
We got back late at night, and in the dark, we buried the little one in our backyard.
Your picture speaks the world to me as I can closely identify with it. Thank you for posting it.
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thank you very much. The rabbit was the one and only creature I hit and I hope will ever hit.
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So you remembered the one you hit by car when the young bunny you found in a shop (?) window died, and made this foto?
I was just confused how you managed to hit it, and the fact hat it had been laying there a while.
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the rabbit was hit a good week or more before I found the baby bunny.
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I love rabbits, I have 4 right now. This image is very powerful for me. Its so beautiful and so sad at the same time. I think its a great image to share, not because the rabbits are dead, because life is so fragile just like the rabbits are. Good work.
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thank you. I have had many rabbits over the years, showed them too for a good 4 years. We only have one now, I am into rats instead.
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I absolutely love it. The symbolism is awsome. Was this a spurr of the moment thing or did it come to you when the live rabbit passed? Did you leave the smaller dead rabbit there? I think if you go back in afew years it would make a good follow up pic. Yeah I will stop talkin now
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spur of the moment. I put the baby with it and was like... hmm picture.. I did leave the baby there, but amazingly, bone degrades rather quickly, especially for young animals, when left in the open. So they are long gone.
Naw, talk away. I like real comments.
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So the larger rabbit is gone too. Darn I was gonna ask you to send me the skull. I have always wanted a skull collection. You should send me that photo so I can play with it on photoshop. I am a big freak with photoshop lol.
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well the skulls of both are in my room. lol cause I do collect skulls. I typically don't mention it cause most people go... EWWWW.
Hm, I'd be curious what you'd do with it in photoshop. since it's a really old photo and as long as you give me credit for the original I give you permission to yoink it and play with it. I don't have the original file anymore but you can printscreen it or something.
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Sweet deal, and of course I would give you credit! I aint no art stealer 
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hmm. don't really know. I'd have to count. at least 8 or so. and send me a link when you upload the manip.
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good idea, I'm fearing for my pet rabbit's life now. His name's rascal and is the exact same as the baby rabbit in this composition. I feel for you, cuz I'll miss him when he's gone. Life and death. this is Great. simply that.
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thanks. and :
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How long after hitting the first rabbit was this? I'm just curious because of the skeleton.
I really do like this shot, though. It is a very stunning and emotional capture.
My sister almost crashed her car after hitting a rabbit (the first thing she ever hit) and of course I was in the car. She screamed so loud and let go of the wheel and started bawling while I was like "Kelly! Drive the car!!" lol...my little sister cries over everything... But of course, the rabbit ran into the road about 6 inches from the car and at full speed (suicide??) so there was nothing she could do about it. The rabbit literally EXPLODED....it was so gross and I don't even know how to describe that. There were pieces of the rabbit everywhere on the road...and the only thing left after a few days was the fur. A week prior to that I had swerved to miss a squirrel but wound up hitting it dead-on instead as it tried to dodge me...and a few birds. Out in the country...it's just what happens.
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hmm... maybe a week or so in the middle of the summer. no rain. and thanks.
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You've done a wonderful job of capturing how fragile life can be.
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I'm glad you tried to do something for the rabbits, as a lot of people just forget about small animals. This is sad, powerful, and meaningful photography. Very moving.
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I admire your honesty
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I'm really sorry... I don't know if I could handle that well-hitting an animal with the car. And that's one of the saddest things, when you find an animal barely alive and too late to save...
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This intrigues me. I took pictures of a dead bird.. same feeling. I want to look, but know it should hurt more too look. Curiosity takes over and I find the meaning of live.
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Argh. Yeah, this is sad.
Two baby bunnies I was taking care of died not to log ago. And they were real small, just little puff balls. They're mom got hit. ._.
But I always see animas(mostly dead) on the road and if they're hurt I'll try and take care of them and if they're just dead, I move them off the road so another animal won't come and try and eat them so they'll get hit too.
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That is the saddest thing I have ever seen in my life. I am actually crying ... especially since when I first looked at it not knowing anything I thought tht the baby saw its mom die, and then crawled up there on the remains because it knew it would die. 
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Poor creature...it really gets to ya... My dad ran over a bird while i was in the car. It's not our fault though. Not even close to being our fault. It flew down to the road and clipped the tire. We see alot of birds do this, we think they're playing chicken. Like, they're playing a game to see who can fly down infront of a car and not get hit. My mom almost ran over a bob cat. And a deer one time. The deer luckily jumped ontop of the car and took off, and the bob cant ran fast enough. Very powerful picture...Kudo's to you.
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i havent felt like commenting on anything in a few weeks..but i want to comment on this. i know that pain. i thought i hit [ a second ] frog yesterday and i almost started crying in the car because me and my boyfriend run around and catch the frogs to take them out of harms way. i'm not supposed to run them over.. i figured that i would have felt my..tire..go over the poor thing if i had actually hit it so i was saved from that pain again. the first one i sat in my car for like 5 minutes just being sad. i have almost hit an opossum (!!!! ) and a deer the same week. luckily i stopped in time but it still really freaked me out badly. i think that what you did is good and ( insert better words here because arcenic cant think anymore ) because you didnt just drive away and leave it on the side of the road to rot. you did something for it and kind of honored them in some way. the baby looks like he's still alive but you cant blame yourself for what the mother rabbit or a predator did (probably took the baby and dropped him ). nature does annoying things like that.
anyway. <3
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Well this was taken only minutes after Dolly (that is what I called her) died in my hands. I was crying when I took the picture... but I felt that I needed to. Something was calling me to do it.
I think it is horrible to hit and run any creature. Human or otherwise. We are all connected. At least the poor thing could ge back into the Earth peacefully in my back yard instead of being hit over and over on the road side.
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awww, that's so sad. but very powerful. good work
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