My last post had some well-done Photoshopped photos of people menaced by dangerous animals. But I forgot to include the mother of all such manipulated pics: the dramatic picture of a Great White Shark leaping to attack a soldier dangling on the ladder of an Air Force helicopter. This phony photo was circulated widely by e-mail in 2001. In case you haven't seen it before, this is the infamous image:
Looks like something out of a
Jaws sequel! It was described in e-mails as a picture
National Geographic had chosen as their "Photo of the Year."
To read more about the origins of this fun Photoshopped fraud, click
here to read National Geographic's account of how the pic was created. To see the two photos it was created from, click
here to see the web page on this picture posted at Snopes.com.
Looks like something out of a Jaws sequel! It was described in e-mails as a picture National Geographic had chosen as their "Photo of the Year."
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