False claims at the national trust

We visited a national trust property today to see an national exhibition of prize wining photography
I was disgusted to see this image and it’s write up by the photographer among the exhibits
Claiming the guy had used this air rifle in the badger cut and wrongly claims the scope was a night vision

 

[Trufflehunting]

At the same national photography exhibition at the national trust as my previous post
With nothing to back up the claims that badgers are shot and dumped on roads
Disgraceful claims made with no data / information to back up the claim at a national photography exhibition

 

[Donkey Basher]

I hope you made a formal complaint to @nationaltrust as clearly this is not impartial, is factually inaccurate & is deliberately presenting a biased opinion to people who will take it as being true in the absence of knowing any different.

@Conor O'Gorman
@WW.

One for BASC to follow up on please?!

 

[palmer_mike]

the shooting orgs should be all over this!

 

[WW.]

I hope you made a formal complaint to @nationaltrust as clearly this is not impartial, is factually inaccurate & is deliberately presenting a biased opinion to people who will take it as being true in the absence of knowing any different.

@Conor O'Gorman
@WW.

One for BASC to follow up on please?!

Bit odd... Are we thinking they weren't actually part of the cull and just trying to disparage it or did but for this just posed with an air rifle instead and hoped no-one would notice? Night vision/thermal confusion could be photographer's error regarding monocular?

What outcome are we after with this?

 

[andyk]

I’ve seen this one going around before with different captions by various badger groups.

Every time I think it’s just a great demonstration of how their message is mostly emotional.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Bit odd... Are we thinking they weren't actually part of the cull and just trying to disparage it or did but for this just posed with an air rifle instead and hoped no-one would notice? Night vision/thermal confusion could be photographer's error regarding monocular?

What outcome are we after with this?

The photo won first prize & the commentary is at best ambiguous but I’d hazard is deliberately misleading & the scene has very clearly been staged. It is not representative & there is no balanced story to give viewers sufficient information to enable them take an unbiased message from it.

If we want to get technical, as someone who is married to a former professional photographer, & who was actively involved in her business taking photographs for clients & customers myself, the photo itself doesn’t appear to have any merit - it’s nothing special in composition is nothing that you cannot take on a modern camera phone to be honest.

The outcome I’m after? - letting the NT know that what they’re presenting to the public is not factually correct & appears to deliberately set out to present a biased message to people who may not know any different.

 

[andyk]

Given the number of times I’ve seen it reproduced with different captions, I have a feeling they just found a picture of a guy with a gun and caption it to suit the mood.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Given the number of times I’ve seen it reproduced with different captions, I have a feeling they just found a picture of a guy with a gun and caption it to suit the mood.

In which case how did it win first prize in its category in a photographic competition?

Would I be able to win first prize if I found a photo on the internet and used it to enter the annual BDS competition?

 

[Malxwal]

Surprised the language used wasn't more emotive, "high powered rifle" etc. The wokery is alive and well.

 

[Trufflehunting]

We visited a national trust property today to see an national exhibition of prize wining photography
I was disgusted to see this image and it’s write up by the photographer among the exhibits
Claiming the guy had used this air rifle in the badger cut and wrongly claims the scope was a night vision

These were the competition judges

 

[Donkey Basher]

These were the competition judges

Maybe I’ll enter that next year then

 

[artschool]

Surprised the language used wasn't more emotive, "high powered rifle" etc. The wokery is alive and well.

you were almost right “high powered sniper rifle” is the go to phrase for ultimate wokery

 

[andyk]

In which case how did it win first prize in its category in a photographic competition?

Would I be able to win first prize if I found a photo on the internet and used it to enter the annual BDS competition?

I can only speculate but it would seem a political decision for that photo to win. It’s a really boring photo that looks like it’s off the front of a 90s airgunning book. I’d bet money that there were far better photos submitted, suggesting the decision to let it win was motivated by a desire to draw attention to the ‘evil’ cull, not because of its quality.

 

[LuckyEddie]

Look at who won and do a bit of digging and it’ll explain a lot.

I wonder if there are any connections between the photographer and the judges?

If you go to the National Trust, I don’t think you’ll get very far.

It might be better to go to those corporations that support the judges.
So the likes Canon, Nikon etc.
Stating that people they support financially or with equipment are helping spread disinformation or however you want to put it.

And I don’t mean their headoffices in Britain or Europe, they won’t care two hoots.
I mean Japan.

 

[timbrayford]

I hope you made a formal complaint to @nationaltrust as clearly this is not impartial, is factually inaccurate & is deliberately presenting a biased opinion to people who will take it as being true in the absence of knowing any different.

@Conor O'Gorman
@WW.

One for BASC to follow up on please?!

Fieldsports Channel might be the people to deal with this?

 

[25 Sharps]

It doesn’t say the photo was taken during the cull, the cull is mentioned in the past tense, the thermal has probably been taken as a night vision scope, which it is, sort of. The rest could be true, the subject could have been an ex culler (or more likely spotter) and if the shooter wasn’t very good could have seen some badly shot animals which is disturbing.

Most animals are dispatched cleanly but things go wrong, whether that’s deer or badgers, and seeing an animal opened up and in distress isn’t nice at all.

Load of boll*cks but really, is any more expected from an anti?

 

[25 Sharps]

Fieldsports Channel might be the people to deal with this?

What is there ‘to deal with.

Without knowing or disproving the subject’s background it is just a report on their experience during the cull.

I took my brother in law rabbit shooting, he didn’t like it when their heads were hit with a 35 gr v-max as there wasn’t much left. Possibly verged on disturbing.

I took a friend’s partner rabbit shooting as he was interested, purely pest control, shots at range with a .223, when we picked the second one up, which was body shot, and he saw the damage he actually vomited. Probably found it disturbing….

 

[timbrayford]

What is there ‘to deal with.

Without knowing or disproving the subject’s background it is just a report on their experience during the cull.

Within the context of the accompanying text? You don't perhaps believe that the intention might be to prejudice people against the shooting community by any chance?

 

[biffo]

The National Trust is a pretty toxic organisation at the higher levels, and one that is in serious need of reform.