The BogusColorVendor
One of the prime reasons I started this web site in the first place was that I found it impossible to tell what wood pictures shown on the Internet gave a reasonably accurate picture of a wood and which were just way off base.

Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get a good color shot of some woods and many vendors who show pictures with poor color representations are probably doing their best. HOWEVER ... there are also cases where the pictures have clearly been "corrected" to show the wood to what the photographer feels is better advantage by making the colors MUCH more vibrant than reality.

There is one vendor that is the absolute unchallenged epitome of this and that's the vendor I refer to throughout this site as the "BogusColorVendor". I have purchased from them and I have some direct comparison shots of their pictures versus those that really represent the wood and the differences are stunning.

It appears to me that many of the pictures shown on the Internet by this vendor have been manipulated by someone who is thoroughly dishonest and has absolutely no personal integrity or honor.

There is no possiblity that he tripped on the way to the photo lab and got these results by accident. The saturation level in some of these pictures is almost off the scale and there is no wood in existance that has ever looked like some of the pictures shown by this vendor.

I use this vendor throughout this site to reference the awful way that wood is sometimes misrepresented on the Internet, and particularly in eBay auctions.

To see my full rant on Internet wood color representation, with pictures, click here: wood color representations