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I'm speechless over this mount!
24 April 2013, 01:08
Aspen Hill AdventuresI'm speechless over this mount!
~Ann
24 April 2013, 01:20
OrvarNo comment. Whee did you find that?
Where did they get the cape.....for the victim???
24 April 2013, 03:16
cjfosterI've got to agree. Poor taste!!
24 April 2013, 05:55
bo-n-aroReminds 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.
24 April 2013, 07:08
Cross LWalter did it---------------------------------
24 April 2013, 07:26
LittleJoeI am speechless as well. Definitely not for me. Would not want that thing anywhere near my trophy room.
24 April 2013, 07:49
Wendell ReichVery poor job of photoshop, not to mention very poor taste.
24 April 2013, 19:38
matt u
Speechless.....YES
24 April 2013, 23:35
KenscoNice to see we all agree on something.
25 April 2013, 00:42
larryshoresThere was something similar a few years ago at SCI. However the victim was a white guy in safari garb complete with a gun.
25 April 2013, 02:28
Safari JamesThere 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
25 April 2013, 03:03
Wendell ReichGuys, 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.
25 April 2013, 04:18
Safari JamesThis 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
25 April 2013, 04:48
GraftonIf you put a bowl of potato salad on the guys chest and kind of squint your eyes from a distance it could pass for a buff tossing a picnic table.
25 April 2013, 06:33
NavalukHow did the buffalo get into a pizza place? Damn is no where sacred?
25 April 2013, 06:54
Wendell Reichquote:
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.
Dean
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25 April 2013, 22:25
arkypeteReminds me of question from one of Capsticks books.
Do you know what the grey/black stuff between elephants toes is?
Slow native!
Jim
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25 April 2013, 23:40
505 gibbsquote:
If you put a bowl of potato salad on the guys chest and kind of squint your eyes from a distance it could pass for a buff tossing a picnic table.
26 April 2013, 09:50
724wdquote:
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.
heath
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26 April 2013, 10:22
Swamp_FoxHere's the question. Would it still be tasteless if it were a white guy getting tossed?
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27 April 2013, 00:53
Wendell Reichquote:
Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
Here's the question. Would it still be tasteless if it were a white guy getting tossed?
No, then it would just be tacky.
27 April 2013, 06:22
Ken ClineWhat if it was a likeness of O with a born in kenya shirt on......surprised that has not yet been photoshopped
27 April 2013, 07:21
Mike SmithPhoto-shopped or not, no accounting for taste, or lack thereof.
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27 April 2013, 11:00
ScriptusThere is a lesson here, don't wear a table cloth in buff country.
19 May 2013, 11:32
Venture SouthThe proverbial red rag to a bull.
And no, that is not Photoshop.
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