Hopefully, not staged. The Grays Sporting Journal Expeditions & Guides 2025 has a Don Thomas article about tracking lions with hounds and eating the results. Thomas writes the best current lion stories I have seen. I didn’t read it. Anyone know of other good current lion writers?
John Swan (1948-2025)
Bad news travels fast, and I’m sure that many of you have heard that the sporting art world lost one of its premier members – not to mention a very nice guy – when artist John Swan passed away last weekend. Miramichi Salmon Association USA is honoring John Swan and Luther Hall at its dinner …
Dragon Motif
This is a Marc Newson 486 Beretta Ryan Smith I wonder if there is an Asian market that wants this. Definitely an Asian style dragon.
Pout
Featured painting: Herbert W. “Buck” Dunton, “Vivian On Pet”, 1924 “I love the way Buck Dunton captures his daughter’s feelings in this picture. She looks like she would like to be anywhere but sitting for her father to paint her portrait. Having raised two daughters, I saw that look a lot and it was …
Michael Richards about playing chess
A lesson in not judging people.
Turkish Pointers
A pic from Haydar Kavak’s Facebook page. From what I can make of it, he is running English pointers for chukar, etc. out of Sivas in Central Turkey. The differences in the approach to dog work vs American work is interesting. To me, it looks like how it was before field trials took over. He has …
“Why Do Eagles Break Their Beaks?
You pity the kids trying to learn anything today with this crap everywhere. As Steve Bannon said, “Flood the zone with shit” to confuse, demoralize and control the public.
Shishkin, etc
Brook in a Forest, 1880, Ivan Shishkin I have seen a lot of tree artists in the last year and Shishkin stands out Ivan Shishkin, Pines in the Sun, 1886 Same pic which shows how the web can distort what paintings look like.. Michael Handt (German, 1995) – Last Light in the Forest [oil on …
How To Catch A Baboon.
More I saw this and laughed but it may be based on a grain of truth.
Elk, The Super Deer
Douglas Allenb. 1935Gros Ventre Elkoil on canvas20 x 30 inchessigned lower left. Yukon Wildlife Cams Elk in the Yukon The rack is huge and dark. Acoustic battles for the harem: How the calls of Siberian stags reveal their status and individuality Wapiti tune their calls. The King of Elk Hunting: 480 4/8 Net! A …