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Natural photos of birds for sale I wouldn’t touch one that’s not natural anymore

If a fancier wants a touched up one of a champion for his own wall etc like people do pets then i understand that

Natural every time for me

I've always been a bit half-soaked with photo's of my birds really

The only ones I had done (as a rule) were pigeons that had "won" something significant and were awarded the photograph as a consequence of the result.
Having said that there were plenty that I never bothered having done - "Champion Eddy" for instance. He never had his image done. I knew he wouldn't appreciate it so his wishes came before mine.

Definitely a natural photo everytime for me ,these photo shopped images on auction sites are terrible

When I was in the sport before it was a badge of honour to have a picture on your wall of a fed topper by a chap called Anthony Bolton I seem to remember. I don’t suppose he’s still doing it?

Can't say I've seen any of Anthony's work for a while

I know Peter Bennett still does his

PeteDerby wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:19 pm When I was in the sport before it was a badge of honour to have a picture on your wall of a fed topper by a chap called Anthony Bolton I seem to remember. I don’t suppose he’s still doing it?

Anthony Bolton photos were excellent in b&w but not that good in colour. He used to touch up them up. Louella used him a lot. His colour photos were false colours. I recall being at Louella many years ago at saw the picture of 'Shy Lass' in the photo it had a green ring. But the bird was bred in 1975 and should have had a BLUE ring. To this day when I see a colour photo of a bird I always use the ring colour as a reference point. If the ring is the right colour, the bird will be.

Below are 3 random images of some of my old birds

I have no issues with them.

Taken by a photographer these were before the days when various software tools like Photoshop were being used

They aren't "perfect" but in each example I can see the birds character (if you click the image it does appear the correct way, and if you click the image twice it should "zoom" a little)

I would say that Blue Nantes cock taught me more about widowhood racing in 1 week than I learned in a decade

Very nice
The first one was some yearling vdb ?

Proper pigeon photos unlike the false photos you see now in adverts much prefer these

Murray wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:04 am This is what my pingwings look like.
You may like them or not like them. They haven't been cut and modified.
I like them, anyway.

What’s the 2nd one down Murray