Firearm photos

[Smith357]

Sometimes I like to compose a still life shot.

Other times not so much.

 

[sipowicz]

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!!!!

 

[kennyb]

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?

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!

 

[semperfi71]

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

 

[Indiana George]

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

You started a good 'un!

 

[seagill]

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

 

[J.P.60]

My personal favorites:

 

[Cyrano]

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!

 

[reddogge]

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.

 

[SFsc616171]

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.

 

[firearmsunlimited]

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.

 

[Texas Star]

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

They come in cans?

T-Star

 

[David LaPell]

Guns look good with shiny stuff,

and other stuff

and fluffy and furry stuff

 

[indiuckian]

That's kinda where I was going...

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

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

 

[wbraswell]

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

 

[reddogge]

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.

 

[firearmsunlimited]

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!

 

[nun]

Firearmsunlimited, is that a Ben Richardson stag horn knife?

 

[sipowicz]

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...

 

[Babalooie]

Mine is in two parts.

 

[jcelect]

Hey, where's the wood?

Nobody posted any wood with their gun? What's up?

jcelect SWCA#LM723

 

[firearmsunlimited]

Firearmsunlimited, is that a Ben Richardson stag horn knife?

Tom High custom from the year he won the knife makers guild award.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Here's a carefuly composed shot. Note the juxtaposition of the brick and charcol lighter-offsetting the white terrycloth towel on which the gun sits-close to the gaping maw of the Weber. And one asks, is that yet another cast iron hibachi sitting atop the weber on which yon gun rests atop it's virginial white bed???
Some college professor (or a shrink for the criminally insane ) could write a book about the different sublimated layers of unrequited angst this picture delievers.

 

[PALADIN85020]

I think the inclusion of a knife in a gun photo gives it extra "color" and a nice reference point. For example, here are some of the tools of the trade for our OSS spy agency during WWII - a Colt Commando and an OSS stiletto. Just the things for coping with the Gestapo in occupied France!

John

 

[Onomea]

Love that anti-Nazi spachelor! Way cool!

 

[CH47gunner]

First pic was actually just for the Challenge coin, threw the gun in for kicks.
So yes, it's a gratuitous gun pic.

Bruce

 

[firearmsunlimited]

PROPOSED FIREARM RELATED PHOTO RULES - subject to comment and review LOL

multiple handguns, rifles and/or shotgun in photo - good
(1) knife per photo - good
wrist or pocket watch in photo - not so good
ammunition in photo - good
(1) ammo box in photo - good
(1) S&W box in photo - good
(1) S&W wood or leatherette display case in photo - good
S&W historical letter in photo - good
(1) hatchet or tomahawk in photo - good
shotgun shells in photo - not so good unless used as a prop
Colt or Ruger props - no so good
natural landscape as backdrop in photo - good
bathroom as backdrop in photo - not so good
cluttered workbench in photo - not so good
naked woman in photo - not so good - but Lee still wants to review
woman in bikini in photo - subject to review by Lee
woman in tight sweater in photo - good
(1) cloth patch in photo - good
(1) LEO badge in photo - good
Trees, leaves, stumps & rocks in photo - good
dead animals in photo - not so good
car, truck, motorcycle or ATV in photo - not so good
flashlight in photo - not so good
arms, hands or ugly faces in photo - not so good
carpenter hand tools in photo - not so good
power tools in photo - not so good

FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THE LIST

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

You're a good sport amigo

 

[sipowicz]

Ditto....

 

[Bob R]

1) knife per photo - good
wrist or pocket watch in photo - not so good
ammunition in photo - good
(1) ammo box in photo - good
(1) S&W box in photo - good
(1) S&W wood or leatherette display case in photo - good
S&W historical letter in photo - good
(1) hatchet or tomahawk in photo - good
shotgun shells in photo - not so good unless used as a prop
Colt or Ruger props - no so good
natural landscape as backdrop in photo - good
bathroom as backdrop in photo - not so good
cluttered workbench in photo - not so good
naked woman in photo - not so good - but Lee still wants to review
woman in bikini in photo - subject to review by Lee
woman in tight sweater in photo - good
(1) cloth patch in photo - good
(1) LEO badge in photo - good
Trees, leaves, stumps & rocks in photo - good
dead animals in photo - not so good
car, truck, motorcycle or ATV in photo - not so good
flashlight in photo - not so good
arms, hands or ugly faces in photo - not so good
carpenter hand tools in photo - not so good
power tools in photo - not so good

FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THE LIST

1 - 10 Toes in photo, trimmed and clean or yellow with fungus.... NEVER GOOD!

bob