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

FujiJon wrote:

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

Well, I'd have given credit for the side by side sidelock. Maker? Next time try presenting a brace of roasted factory farmed chickens as food photography, which I assume would have been perfectly acceptable. Funny old world.

Thanks!

The gun in that image is actually a custom handmade pinless sidelock (meaning that the axles for the internal lockparts are machined to be part of the sidelock plate itself (not really any better than a normal sidelock in practical terms but quite an engineering feat) with H&H style engraving done in Bulino.  Famars (Abbatico and Salvinelli) are the makers and Sabitini is the engraver.  The gun was featurted on Famars' website for a number of years - they are now out of business.

This was a pic from the website of the process of how they made this pinless sidelock out of a thick chunk of steel.

This is a better pic of the gun (sorry that it includes a couple of the dreaded dead birds):

Greg