Karl, fabulous animals, and I really like the animal's position. Very nice!! And they would be impressive even if the hunter wasn't sitting a mile behind them. In fact, more impressive...

Since you ask, you bring up a very good issue I've been wanting to discuss for a while.

I am personally not too much of a fan of the "standard" positioning of the hunter "somewhere behind" the animal. It seems this has become "essential" anymore and the reason I do not care for it is that it eliminates the true perspective of size that comes from placing the hunter next to or truly right behind the animal.

I'm certain many hunters insist on getting about a football pitch behind the animal in an attempt to make the critter look bigger, but IMO it only makes the animal look smaller as it is so obvious a "ploy" that it erases my ability to actually judge the trophy size in the picture. In fact, now as soon as I see the hunter far away yonder behind the critter, my mind "shortens the horns" so-to-speak.

I admit I am a realist in this stuff, sort of. I really like the old-timey pic's of a hunter standing over, sitting on, holding the horns or sitting next to the animal, almost downplaying the trophy/horn size. The old pictures paint a picture of the hunt that the new, standard, "trophy-inflating" behind-pose doesn't.

I also admit I am not much of a trophy hunter, meaning, I am not overly impressed with big horns unless they really are big, and the whoppers are whoppers whether a fellow is lying on top of the animal, sitting in front of it, or hiding in the weeds out of view.

Thanks for some great pics, fine animals, and a very interesting topic.

What do others think??