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This fall I started a forum thread (see above) on the topic of taking pictures, specifically "grip and grin" style photos. I made this thread with the intention of hopefully getting a elk last fall and experimenting with different style of photos/presentations and showing them to non hunters or posting them on social media and gauging reactions of the people who viewed them.
Attached is a picture from this past Septembers Colorado muzzleloader season....it's a picture of my first elk ever, took my six years to finally get.
What I found was that showing people a picture they weren't used to seeing, a style of picture other than the traditional "grip and grin" almost always enticed the person to ask questions that I don't think they otherwise would ask. Almost always they asked me, "why aren't you smiling?", "Are you unhappy about killing an animal?", "Tell me more about why you took that photo that way".
Some of those responses may seem negative but those questions allowed me to get into a great discussion about how we hunters are conservationists and have great respect and admiration for the animals we hunt and ultimately kill. How we care greatly about them not only in numbers but also their habitats. In fact one person started hunting because he saw that picture and was so interested he wanted to take up the sport.
Obviously there is nothing wrong with grip and grin type pictures and we should all be proud but I found that thinking outside the box has allowed me more opportunities to spread our passion. Has anyone else had similar experiences?
This fall I started a forum thread (see above) on the topic of taking pictures, specifically "grip and grin" style photos. I made this thread with the intention of hopefully getting a elk last fall and experimenting with different style of photos/presentations and showing them to non hunters or posting them on social media and gauging reactions of the people who viewed them.
Attached is a picture from this past Septembers Colorado muzzleloader season....it's a picture of my first elk ever, took my six years to finally get.
What I found was that showing people a picture they weren't used to seeing, a style of picture other than the traditional "grip and grin" almost always enticed the person to ask questions that I don't think they otherwise would ask. Almost always they asked me, "why aren't you smiling?", "Are you unhappy about killing an animal?", "Tell me more about why you took that photo that way".
Some of those responses may seem negative but those questions allowed me to get into a great discussion about how we hunters are conservationists and have great respect and admiration for the animals we hunt and ultimately kill. How we care greatly about them not only in numbers but also their habitats. In fact one person started hunting because he saw that picture and was so interested he wanted to take up the sport.
Obviously there is nothing wrong with grip and grin type pictures and we should all be proud but I found that thinking outside the box has allowed me more opportunities to spread our passion. Has anyone else had similar experiences?