Reminds me of the very large painting I saw a few years ago at the Dallas Safari Club show that had a lion laying over a half eaten black. This mount however could have been commissioned for a special presentation..... I hope that was the case.
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There was a similar mount, perhaps this mount, which was purchased at an estate sale by a taxidermy business and subsequently sold to an individual that was looking to open an outdoors type retail business. Not sure of the logic but distasteful nonetheless.
Safari James USMC DRSS
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Guys, it's fake. No, I'm not one who says every photo on the 'net is fake, but this one clearly is.
Shadow from the guys clothing on his leg, soft shadow, blended. In contrast to the other shadows which are sharp. The "cutout" of the man is pasted with a "dropshadow" added.
Look at the shadow from the guys right heel on the Buffalo and on the wall. It falls along a 2 dimensional plane. Like it is a shadow on a picture, not on a 3 dimensional object.
It's a very poor photoshop job. It's not a real mount.
This one may well be fake but I can tell you for a fact I stood right next to one just like it at the taxidermy studio after it was brought in from an estate sale. The mount does exist.
Safari James USMC DRSS
Posts: 369 | Location: Texas | Registered: 16 August 2011
Originally posted by Safari James: This one may well be fake but I can tell you for a fact I stood right next to one just like it at the taxidermy studio after it was brought in from an estate sale. The mount does exist.
I don't doubt it. Some odd people in this world.
Maybe someone was trying to recreate the mount they saw by photoshoping this guy into it? Who knows.
I recall seeing on AR a photo from the SCI convention a few years ago along the same theme. The buff was tossing a white hunter. A sign labelled Mark Sullivan had been hung from the guy being tossed.
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Originally posted by Wendell Reich: Guys, it's fake. No, I'm not one who says every photo on the 'net is fake, but this one clearly is.
Shadow from the guys clothing on his leg, soft shadow, blended. In contrast to the other shadows which are sharp. The "cutout" of the man is pasted with a "dropshadow" added.
Look at the shadow from the guys right heel on the Buffalo and on the wall. It falls along a 2 dimensional plane. Like it is a shadow on a picture, not on a 3 dimensional object.
It's a very poor photoshop job. It's not a real mount.
Wendell, I must respectively disagree. shadows such as those on this photo are very common when using an elevated flash. One must also take into account that even without the man attached, that would be a supremely odd buff mount. It seems like the buff and the man fit together as a package (albeit a rather tasteless one)
looks like a museum-type mount to me; kind of a "This happens in africa" type of thing. museums are not always concerned with "taste" and flawless mounts.
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