Photo Competition 2022-02-14: Death

Question

Theme: Death

Photos with dead stuff. Examples can include decomposing matter, dead trees/plants/animals, animals with their prey, food that was once alive (plant, fungi, or meat based), or other symbolic representations of death.

This theme was suggested by whackamadoodle3000.

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Submission Rules

1. One photo submission per answer. Up to three (3) entries allowed.
2. Post only photos taken by yourself or the person with you.
3. All entries should include:
   • a title for the photo
   • a location and date, if known
   • camera, lens, film stock, and exposure settings, if known
   • any other explanatory notes, comments, etc., that you want to include (completely optional)
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Next Contest

Suggest a theme by writing a new answer at the Photo of the Week Theme Ideas thread. Please make sure to check the PotW theme ideas Archive first, to make sure you aren't recycling a theme.

The highest-voted theme will be the next theme.

Good luck!

Answer 1

Horse & Sheep skull found during my Bhrigu Lake Trek in Himachal Pradesh state of India

Captured Date : Aug 30, 2021

Phone Used: OnePlus 5T 
Focal Length: 4.10mm
White balance: auto
Aperture: f/1.7
Exposure time: 1/2043
ISO: 250

Answer 2

A horse with no mane

In a remote mountain valley in Andorra
Panasonic lumix Gx1
F:4.5
Ss:1/160
14mm
Iso:160

Answer 3

Dead flowers in a vase.

Not been here for a while, but happened to be taking something appropriate to the theme last weekend (13/02/21).

Olympus E-30
Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm F4.0-5.6
@ f/8.0, 1/160, 45mm, ISO 200
Yongnuo YN560IV & YN560III speedlights (though I think by this stage one of them had run out of battery charge).
Light tent with black 'velvet' backdrop.

Processed in darktable.

Answer 4

Y (why)?

This is a dead tree I encountered on a hike in the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland.

Panasonic Lumix GX-1, 14-42 lens @20, ISO 160, 1/320 sec.

Answer 5

Hunt

Results of a caribou hunt in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Alaska, in late August 2017 (start of fall colours). Caribou is a young bull.
Nikon D7000 with a 18-140mm lens, 45mm, f/6.3, 1/160s, ISO 320

Answer 6

The Protector

A sculptural angel watches over the grave of Mary Navarro (1863-1907) at the Key West Cemetery in Key West, Florida.

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + EF 24-70mm f/2.8L @ 57mm, ISO 100, f/8, 1/500.

Answer 7

Expectancy

Early morning light plays upon grave markers, many of them well over a century old, in the Christian section of the Key West Cemetery on Key West, Florida. Christian graves are oriented towards the East. Adherents of Christianity do so in anticipation of Christ's appearance in the eastern sky, much like the sun appears each morning, at the end of time to call forth his followers from their graves in the final resurrection.

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L @ 24mm. ISO 400, f/8, 1/640.