So we've all seen the staged photo, where dude has all the blood washed off the carcass - the hair neatly combed over the hole - he's holding its head in his hand, and gazing deeply into its eyes... He's sporting his best camo, his cuticles are trimmed, his shirt neatly pressed...

Or the guy who has some unlucky schmuck snapping photos of him while he poses at full draw like he'sposing for American Badass magazine.

The question is: When does it get "weird?"

For me, there comes a point where "respect for the animal" and "taking nice field photos" goes beyond a point of no return, where it just turns into some bizarro-world homo-erotic Glamour Shots photo shoot.

Kinda like that scene in Napoleon Dynamite, where Uncle Rico goes and gets Glamour Shots by Deb - with the tiny seahorses.
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For example, this year, my homeboyarrows a really nice buck - and says "take my picture." "K. Gimme the camera."

So I do, and he starts looking at it - and all the sudden, he turns into some kind of Andy Warhol - and says "the lighting isn't right, and I had a stupid look on my face." "Let's move it over here.."

[>:] "Dude." "Seriously."

We wind up moving it 2-3 times and taking about 15 pictures. He's showing "his good side" and making sure his shirt is tucked in.

By the time it was over, I felt like we both needed our balls re-attached.

This is a guy who was a college linebacker, and can be borderline scary from time to time... And now dude wants to be all artsy fartsy and have me doing glamour shots in somemud ditch in the middle of nowhere.