** Weekly X-Series Photo-Sharing Thread 04 MAR – 11 MAR **

Birddogman wrote:

Jerry-astro wrote:

Birddogman wrote:

Jerry-astro wrote:

Birddogman wrote:

Jerry-astro wrote:

Birddogman wrote:

I posted this image, entitled "Today's Wild Harvest" to the "Isolated subjects against white background" challenge and it was instantly disqualified as being offensive. Say what??!!

What am I missing here?

Greg

Strikes me as a bit of an overreaction, TBH, but that’s just one guy’s opinion. I can post a link to this in the Mod forum and see if I can get a better reading on what the issue is. I’ll get back to you if and when I get a credible explanation.

Thanks, Jerry. I wrote to the guy, respectfully, but got no answer.

Greg

That’s unfortunate. I did post something over there and I’ll report back if/when I get some sort of an answer.

Thanks again!!

Well, no definitive explanation, but most likely, as an avid birder, he personally found it somewhat offensive. Whether it actually violated any rules per se is certainly questionable, but apparently he felt that it wasn’t appropriate, for whatever reason.

I guess none of that is a surprise. I agree that big, bloody piles of dog-chewed dead birds on a muddy tailgate can be offensive. Being keenly aware that some people don’t like hunting, I try hard to present upland hunting in a proper light; and therefore, to make my harvested bird images tasteful and artistic, maybe like this one

So, I didn’t think anyone could find my composition offensive.

Oh, well. Not the end of the world in any event. Thanks so much for taking your time to follow up!!

Greg

I'm sure many folks find the idea of hunting in general to be somewhat offensive.  I can't explain or justify his decision in spite of the fact that I'm not at all into any sort of hunting... thus, I probably would have not reacted quite the same way.  I guess it depends on one's interpretation of DPR's rules.