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Spider Monday

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Been a while since my last  Spider Monday  post, but I came across this post on the art blogosphere and the photos are amazing!   Check out the macro work of  Jimmy Kong :   photos  © Jimmy Kong via  thisiscolossal

Real or Fake?

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Can you tell if these images are real? With the advancements in photo editing software and the hope that photographers show single-frame images, it is getting increasingly hard to determine if a shot is one frame or a composite. The first one that really caught my eye was published online in the National Geographic Your Shot Daily Dozen on October 1, 2009, and then again in the June 2010 National Geographic magazine. O riginal submission by William Lascelles . Caption information below: Backyard Airshow #candid #dog #flyby #jets "My parents live very close to the city airport and every other year they host an air show. This year the Blue Angels were the highlight and were flying over the house during performances. I took my father's dog outside and made him pose!" Guess what? This is fake. When enough readers of the magazine saw the photo, the editors at NatGeo asked for proof that the image was real. So Lascelles submitted another shot "the n...