Mistaken identity

Here's something I used to hear a lot when I was making model horse tack: Oh, that looks exactly like a real saddle!

My first thought was always: It is a real saddle. It's just small.

My second thought - which I didn't usually express out loud - was: It doesn't look exactly like a real saddle. Close, but not really.

It's rare for me to mistake model tack for real tack. My brain is trained to see the differences, and I am hard to fool.

a saddle by Evelyn Munday, whose work occasionally fools me

What happens more frequently is this: I see a picture of real horse tack and assume it's model sized. This has happened a lot lately with Tack of the Day's sponsored Facebook ads.

Obviously, a lot of it is the photography and editing.

If you remove the background and put the pony on a turntable, I am going to do a double take. This one really got me!

Sidenote: Tack of the Day is really coming for me with some of these holiday items.

Sage would look so cute in this.

In fact, it really doesn't matter what scale that is. It's definitely an item I would like to own!