My flash caught them looking at me. I hold the camera away from my face, off to the side, when using the flash a night, so that I can see all the eyes up in the trees, and in the periphery, too. The light in the view finder messes up my night vision, so I hold it away from myself and don’t look at it. However, when the flash goes, I can see all the eyes, and glowing things for an instant. To the right, up high, out of the frame, are a ‘possum’s red eyes looking like a vampire, suspended … creepy. Whenever I turned the camera in his direction, he ducked his head behind the tree trunk, or a large branch. I’m not sure who the down low red eyes belong to. They were in several frames, then disappeared, though the green and yellow eyes of the deer were joined by a few more.
I seem to have quite a bit of company ⓒBearspawprint2015 4.1.2015
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Many a night in the woods by a campfire, embers glowing just
outside the circle of light- some moving, some stationary for
a moment or two.
Rustled leaves, cracking twig, timid, unsure as they gaze at
man, once a friend, now a potential enemy, usurper of territory,
befouler of water, of air, tainted bait and traps of steel, bounties
on their hair as later we also were to experience.
In the beginning as a people the nations had agreements with
all that walked, flew, and swam.
They would sacrifice themselves that we might be nourished, fed,
clothed, and housed.
In turn we would honor them and the agreement taking no more than
necessary while respecting the land and their nations, calling on
their spirits for wisdom, strength, and as helpers.
No “dominion over all things” as we were part and parcel of all that was,
not master, but dependent as were others in the symbiotic ecology
of life, having a niche within the circle as they did….belonging.
A niche, a place, whose duty was to live within the circle, within
the balance – now furtive embers in the night calculating a safe
distance and perhaps wondering how this all came to be.
It is a great sadness, a shameful thing.
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… and so it is.
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I find this photo scary!
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What would be scary is if those were coyotes or wolves instead of White Tail Deer. If the red glow were a predator, the deer would not have stayed.
that may also have been a deer, with an odd angle of refraction. I knew those fellows were there, is why I knew to snap their photos. The little spots of light are tiny flying critters, and the pale orbs I am unable to see, even in with the flash. There was enough moonlight for me to tell where I was putting my feet. The reality of it is not so spooky as the photo. If you said “Boo” all of the animals, and even the orbs, would most likely go away. Only the mosquitoes are unafraid.
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Creepy indeed… How come our eyes are not glowing like theirs? 🙂
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When the flash reflects in people eyes, it is recorded as red in photographs. Some digital photo applications have a “red eye” fix. It turns the red reflection black.
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That’s why some of the eyes in some photos are creepy too… LOL! 🙂
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The color is really just a refracted reflection, Not so bad. If you are the photographer, have your subject look away, a little bit, so that the flash is not reflected directly into the lens. 😉
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hiking in da dark are we? lol 😎
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Yup
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