wis_bow_huntr
since you asked yes - they're horrible pictures. You could have spent 5 minutes and had some really nice photo's of your trophies, instead you were lazy and cared nothing about it and snapped horrible field photo's - something nobody can be proud of. Here's what I mean - and its terribly basic stuff .... we took this deer off a 4 wheeler, drug it 10 steps with a field in the background, and snapped off 30 photo's really quick. Cold and Windy and we took 3 minutes to do it.
you could have done that with your buck so easily
Now, I'm guilty too - this is a bad photo. Blood all over the mouth could have been wiped off. I'm not showing all the body, nor my bow. glowing tennis shoes? [:'(] worse part is the animal is on a concrete slab with equipment etc in the back. I'm happy with that deer, longbow kill, but horrible photo. My camera batteries died in the field, I was more concerned with dealing with the animal than photo's and regret it. That was 2003 - I learned from it
I don't sugar coat things - sorry guys. You know what may be part of this? The difference might be people who love hunting vs people who just kill animals. The difference might be people who respect hunting, and the animals they hunt vs people who don't. And yeah, call me wishy washy if you want, there is a spiritual side of hunting, its more than a sport, its a lifetime adventure and it encompasses so much more than just filling a tag.
When I'm in the field, I snap photo's of everything I can, and maybe only 1 out of every 30-50 photo's is a really good one. Its not unlike ANYTHING we photograph in life - from your kids to your prized old automobile or Harley, maybe its your girlfriend or your dog .... there is an appreciation in photographs and they're something to be proud of because they connect you to a certain moment in time and that capture should be the best it can be.
Its almost like some of these photo's have went out of their way to be as nasty as possible and the guy who is in the photo looks the complete idiot for it - there is nothing respectable about bad field photo's [&o]