We have all seen them. Hunting photos that made your skin crawl.
Some hunters don’t take much time or put much thought into successful harvest photos.
Gruesome photos of entry and exit wounds… Tongues hanging out of animal’s mouths… Even arrows sticking up out of an animal on the ground.
These kinds of images are not tasteful, and could actually be used against us hunters by anti-hunting groups.
When we post a photo of an animal we harvested on social media, or pass a photo around the breakroom at work, care should be taken to insure the photo is tasteful.
It might mean wiping away blood, or even removing a tongue. Yes, it is taking away from what really happens after a hunt. But in today’s sensitive world we live in, these precautions should be taken.
Outdoor Life has provided a nice insight to the good, bad, and the ugly of hero shots.
Which got me thinking about the whole business of photographing hunts. Blood is a part of hunting, and I don’t see any use in trying to pretend it’s not. It’s not normal or disturbing to us when recovering an animal, or heaving the guts onto the ground, or hosing out the truck bed. But take a photograph of that natural process, and it becomes an issue bordering on obscenity for many. Blood on the vanes of my arrow went unquestioned, and drops on leaves and puddles in the dirt are acceptable, too. But show the actual source of that blood? We enter a gray area; some people even see red… [continued]
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