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Thanks Alan and Barrett!
Thanks Rachel, I guess when most of us start off hanging around on the Porch, the Totin’ thread is one of the first ports of call.
It is pretty cool when you start to recognise different Porchfolk from either a ‘signature’ photo style, or less intentional ‘tells’ in their pics.
You do most definitely have a recognisable style, but you mix it up enough, that sometimes it’s a combination of things that the unconscious mind ticks off that help to place the authorship.
Rosewood and Rosemary together: Bingo! (Yes that is a Tackler, I used it for the Rosewood signature, as I don’t have a Lambsfoot in that cover material!)
Also the Texas light, Texas BBQ, Echo’s beautiful fur patterning, and any of your distinctive refinished ‘Rest home’ knives will usually give it away!
By extension, the soft English light will always help place any outdoor pics from Jack or @donn . I’d read about the ‘Gloaming’ before, but never really understood it, until visiting Ireland and Northern England, as we don’t have anything like it in Australia - that long, soft, hazy purple afternoon half-light before dusk.
Then there’s what I call the Pro level quality photos - there’s quite a lot of these on the Porch, but Chief, Cigarrodog, Fodderwing and Joeradza, off the top of my head, all sit in that category, to my mind at least.
Sometimes it’s a certain prop or background that’s familiar - Gasman1 and flatblackcapo’s workbench areas are distinctive signatures, as are parts of peoples gardens or yards.
I always look for Travman’s photobombing hound in his pics - at first I actually thought it was an intentional signature, like a ‘Where’s Wally’ element!
Sometimes even vast outdoor areas have been co opted into a signature tell, like dc50 and Stonebeard’s spectacular mountain panoramas, and Horsewright’s Californian cattle country.
Of course the knives themselves are the easiest of giveaway ‘tells’ for many posters.
Carl’s SAK Classic or Secretary along with a P38 and Sears 4-way driver is unmistakeable, as are Buzzbait’s Scouts.
Once when I was chopping firewood while out camping, a car drove slowly up to my campground, just on dusk. At first with annoyance, I was mentally willing them to go further away, and not camp next to me, then I belatedly recognised with pleasure, that it was one of my good friends, also randomly camping in that spot! She said she had first zeroed in on the axe I was swinging, trying to see what brand it was, then recognised ‘Hey, I know that axe... and the guy who goes along with it!’
I think some folks have such a signature style, that it’s quite hard to imitate them. As has been pointed out before in this thread, Dylan’s
Pàdruig
‘s pics are like that - a combination of props, composition, background, particular knives, photo quality and post processing, that is very difficult to replicate exactly.
Anyway, keep ‘em coming folks, this is a very entertaining thread!
Excellent! And here I was thinking "Oh, no one's going to mimic me, I don't have a distinct style." I guess it's like hearing one's own accent.
p.s. Is that knife on the rosemary a Tackler?
Thanks Rachel, I guess when most of us start off hanging around on the Porch, the Totin’ thread is one of the first ports of call.
It is pretty cool when you start to recognise different Porchfolk from either a ‘signature’ photo style, or less intentional ‘tells’ in their pics.
You do most definitely have a recognisable style, but you mix it up enough, that sometimes it’s a combination of things that the unconscious mind ticks off that help to place the authorship.
Rosewood and Rosemary together: Bingo! (Yes that is a Tackler, I used it for the Rosewood signature, as I don’t have a Lambsfoot in that cover material!)
Also the Texas light, Texas BBQ, Echo’s beautiful fur patterning, and any of your distinctive refinished ‘Rest home’ knives will usually give it away!
By extension, the soft English light will always help place any outdoor pics from Jack or @donn . I’d read about the ‘Gloaming’ before, but never really understood it, until visiting Ireland and Northern England, as we don’t have anything like it in Australia - that long, soft, hazy purple afternoon half-light before dusk.
Then there’s what I call the Pro level quality photos - there’s quite a lot of these on the Porch, but Chief, Cigarrodog, Fodderwing and Joeradza, off the top of my head, all sit in that category, to my mind at least.
Sometimes it’s a certain prop or background that’s familiar - Gasman1 and flatblackcapo’s workbench areas are distinctive signatures, as are parts of peoples gardens or yards.
I always look for Travman’s photobombing hound in his pics - at first I actually thought it was an intentional signature, like a ‘Where’s Wally’ element!
Sometimes even vast outdoor areas have been co opted into a signature tell, like dc50 and Stonebeard’s spectacular mountain panoramas, and Horsewright’s Californian cattle country.
Of course the knives themselves are the easiest of giveaway ‘tells’ for many posters.
Carl’s SAK Classic or Secretary along with a P38 and Sears 4-way driver is unmistakeable, as are Buzzbait’s Scouts.
Once when I was chopping firewood while out camping, a car drove slowly up to my campground, just on dusk. At first with annoyance, I was mentally willing them to go further away, and not camp next to me, then I belatedly recognised with pleasure, that it was one of my good friends, also randomly camping in that spot! She said she had first zeroed in on the axe I was swinging, trying to see what brand it was, then recognised ‘Hey, I know that axe... and the guy who goes along with it!’
I think some folks have such a signature style, that it’s quite hard to imitate them. As has been pointed out before in this thread, Dylan’s
Pàdruig
‘s pics are like that - a combination of props, composition, background, particular knives, photo quality and post processing, that is very difficult to replicate exactly. Anyway, keep ‘em coming folks, this is a very entertaining thread!
I decided to take a shot at an entry so here is my best 
except that thumb my friend
we call that a Norwegian Carpenter's thumb around these parts
That’s a souvenir of a heavyweight self closing security door. 
