What is up with the gun photos that contain not only a picture of the gun but include a watch, knife and/or flashlight? Are we supposed to be impressed with the added items? I just don't get it. Do the same posters put a gun in their photos of their knife on a website dedicated to knives?

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It is fluff to prove that we are not only gun-nuts. Don't you see a knife or light and get curious as to what it is? I like the pics with more than just the gun as I like to accessorize.....Think of it like this......Fine (loved) items go with fine items........Do you have only individual pictures of family members or do you have them pictured together, maybe with a new dress for the dance or a new car? We like to show our stuff off. Post some pics of some of your favorite guns with something else you cherish in it..........Sprefix

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You mean like this?
The reason for this inclusion of a Raven .25 is to illustrate the size of an Uncle Henry lockblade knife. It is a small knife with rosewood handles. If you know how small a Raven MP-25 is, then you can see how small the knife is, as compared to the gun. Kinda like putting a quarter beside a small item to show comparison. Plus, I like to impress everyone on the forum with my taste in knives, and firearms
Have a wonderful holidays, from the Smith family.
Peace,
gordon

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Some people like looking at the pictures in The Standard Catalog of FireArms,,others like thumbing though old copys of Shooting Times.
Everybody has their preferences.

I don't really know...Why I do that.

Must be some kind of de-fish-ancy...




Su Amigo,
Dave

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I certainly love looking at gun photos and I do not care what is in the photo other than a gun(s). However, I am into guns and not knives. It has long been my understanding that a person should never bring a knife to a gun fight. Why the fascination with knives is something I do not understand. Sure, different people have different opinions and desires but knives for whatever reason appeals to quite a few.

I own one knife and have cut myself with it at least four times and it stays in my desk drawer. If someone wants a photo of a Black Diamond switchblade, I will be glad to make a photo of it.

Your fellow expert commentator Andy Rooney asked this very same question last week on 60 Minutes.

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I like to impress with my love of the outdoors, hence nature.

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You mean like these? I hate that too! I have even more than these! Wanna see em?

Why should things be so bland?

Nothing wrong with a few well chosen and well places background accessories to show off one photographic skills. I'm actually a bit jealous of these shutterbugs!

Like this?

I do! Show me what ya got. Here's my Timbertech deck, well part of it, anyone like it?.....and some more nature

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Oh, I don't know...Take this one for example that I did for a friend of mine.



Although loosely based on his now famous "tightly woven berber", it gives the viewer a "softer" feel with stunning texture. It makes the subject matter "POP" right into the viewers Cerebral Cortex. Thus leaving them with an unforgettable, pleasurable viewing experience!

I hope now you will understand more of the "conceptual aspects" of the photographers meaning behind the gun photo's of which you speak.

rags

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I have an idea. Remove the knives and let a nice looking lady hold the guns. That would appeal to the interests of many here.

I know what my problem is now. I dont have enough different knifes!

Some like to use imagination, creativity, symbolism, perspective, and contrast in their photo composition...

But it's obviously lost on some folks.


Maybe that's why some people enjoy steak au poivre...



and others would just rather have boiled beef.

Mmmmmm...boiled beef.

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This is going to be a good thread! I post these on the cocktail table forum also.

I like pics of guns with guys in suits...

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KEITH that picture just made my heart flutter. I love those holsters! I haven't forgot your email. When I'm able I'll be oredering one or two or set, or....Doeboy

Sometimes the items in the pictures remind us of a special friend or hunt. I used to take old Milt out squirrel shooting, sadly he passed about three weeks after this pic was taken.

You guys crack me up keep them pics comin'

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Betcha Milt had some stories to tell

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Bummer. Looks like the rest of us do.

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I happen to like the "artsy" style of gun photos with interest as opposed to sale catalog, white background, no interest.

That's just me...

Calvin Klein, Burberry?

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That Colt Trooper 22 is super sweet!
Even sweeter is "Mr. Shorty" (That "short barrelled bad 44")

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After hours of searching the web... I finally found a true 'Mona Lisa that captured that certain 'je n'est ce quoi' of a firearm.

I never get tired of looking at photographic art like this...

I think it is sort of like including the face and legs of a PB Centerfold

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My preference is to let the gun speak for itself:

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Sometimes I like to compose a still life shot.


Other times not so much.

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Regards,
Guy-Harold Smith II

And why is when I goggle pictures of bowls of soup, as I often do when it's chilly out, that people put a spoon it in???? I just want the soup!!!!

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i was wondering if you have the same question of the folks that publish the S&W catalog?they have plenty of non gun images to illustrate/sell their products!

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KK4EMO

You're right though, this picture would have been so much better with just the gun in it.

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Doug, sir, . . . With all due respect . . .

You started a good 'un!

Nice boot knife gunnut44. Knives and guns are like peas and carrots!

My personal favorites:

NCTexan: Where DID you get that Glock 18!!! I'd sure love to have one of those, particularly the compensated version. I understand the older version with the compensator in front of the slide blew so much hot gas onto the plastic front sight, when shooting a couple of 33 round magazines full auto, that the sights melted!

OK, I'll spill the beans. These people are members of a secret society and the posititon of the knife in the picture sends out a coded message to the other members.

Well, since folks are going to post pictures of guns and knives, I have a suggestion. If anybody knows, or remembers, the 'standard' icon of a "Miner Forty-niner" had two things in his hands. One was a PEPPERBOX, and the other was a BOWIE KNIFE. "if the right one don't getcha, the left one will!" During and after the Civil War, there were iconic pictures of Colt revolvers with variations of Bowie Knives and Arkansas Toothpicks. I've not seen many for the First World War, but from the Second World War, and the inception of the OSS, again, another icon or two has emerged. Victory revolvers stand alone as an American icon of determination. We could, also, picture them with a nice Fairbairn-Sykes or the American model V42 knife. From my years in Thailand, I might offer the suggestion of a Model 15-2 or 15-3, sided with the regulation U.S. Air Force aircrew model survival knife. It is a time-tested design, as the M15-3 is. The American marriage of revolvers and companion knives is symbolic of the determination and indomitable fighting spirit of our armed forces, and those who still hold America near and dear.

NOW I GET IT! Smith and Wesson gun forum - picture of gun only - not so good. Picture of gun with a bunch of other unrelated stuff - cool. It's kind of like poetic license - right? Here is a way cool picture.

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They come in cans?

T-Star

Guns look good with shiny stuff,



and other stuff



and fluffy and furry stuff

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Even when looking at the attractive ladies there was part of me that was also thinking. "Awwww..Isn't that cute. She is wearing little hip waders and a little vest in that cold little stream, and OMG, that's a vintage Hardy reel and Paul Young rod she is holding up with tip of her tongue." I think it adds something. Imagine the College issue without those team sweaters and and little tubes you yell through.

My favorite photos you folks post?? The ones with the vintage ammo boxes and holsters casually laying beside the weapon. They look like what gun photos would have looked like back in the day if Ichiro Nagata would have been taking them. IMHO ofcourse.







I guess I am guilty as well..
Indiuckian

Well gosh, Lee won't let us post pics of nekked ladies. I really like the guns with food pics.

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Torn & Frayed

firearmsunlimited, you came up with a pretty good picture that challenges our minds how these things relate to the handgun.

Here's one of a Colt Model 1860 Army and it's former owner and staff.

reddogge,
This is a completely cool shadow box!

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Doug

Firearmsunlimited, is that a Ben Richardson stag horn knife?

If we only posted the gun, how would we know when it's time to get a new holster? And I hope that phaser is set on stun...

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Mine is in two parts.