Life force

Life is precious and precarious. Why should a road-kill squirrel merit notice? Yet it does when one feels a kinship with other living things. So freshly extinguished, with the eye still glistening with moisture, I felt a strong inhibition against photographing it. Then I realized that my reaction was precisely why I should. What makes a squirrel a squirrel one instant, vibrant and alive in all its squirrel-ness, and something else a moment later?

Spark Extinguished
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III + Leica 90/2 APO-Summicron-R