May 1, 2008
Dead Duck Day
After a brief excursus into a different sort of blog post yesterday, the sun has risen again, all is well with the world, and the Dassler Effect is back to posting uplifting pcitures of dead birds ;) This is part of the "And Wears Man's Smudge" category of the blog, which is trying to illustrate the impact of our fallen nature on the planet. As for the last picture, well the only falleness nature that represents is a bunch of guys not keeping their shower clean. I am not sure exactly why we have a dead ducky in our shower, but I have long wanted to photograph it, as weird as that may sound. It seemed logical to do so on "dead duck day," a title which comes from the book About a Boy and the movie of the same name, which you should watch if you have not done so. Brilliant.
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April 26, 2008
Even the Softening Tool Can't Soften This
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April 24, 2008
Power Corrupts
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April 23, 2008
And a River Runs Through It
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April 20, 2008
The Price of Windows
This photo is in a new category for the blog, which are ideas toward the next photo show perhaps.
This blog features a fair number of pictures of the beauty of nature. This is one of its more difficult side. In God and Humanity the other day, Dr. Williams commented that we must never make peace with human death, as that was not how it was meant to be. A discussion ensued about whether animals died before the Fall or were predators and prey. Even if they were, however, Dr. Williams said that humans were not meant to die, and for me even pictures of animal death depict the tragedy of death. As an aside, regardless of whether animals died before the Fall or were eaten by one another, I believe the first few chapters of Genesis tell us that humans were not meant to eat animals before the Fall. I also think this is so because otherwise the sacrificial system would not make much sense, but perhaps more on that another time.
I do not intend to post pictures of dead animals on my blog for gratuitous reasons, but hopefully they depict the glory and the dignity of the animals even as they lament their death.
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April 11, 2008
And Wears Man’s Smudge
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