On Mon, 23 May 2011 15:15:15 -0400, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:14:33 -0400, nemesis wrote:
>>
>> > Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> >> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> >> > photoshop
>> >>
>> >>   Since when has Terragen been called "photoshop"?
>> >
>> > didn't look like Terragen, just an edited photo.
>>
>> Doesn't look anything like a photo to me, as others pointed out, apart
>> from the sizes being completely wrong no matter where you are in the
>> world, there are other significant issues with the image that make it a
>> physical impossibility.
> 
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/northpole.asp
> 
> amusing.  You search for "north pole sunset" in both google and flickr
> and several copies of that image come up.

Yeah, amazing that Google pulls up results that are not just photographs, 
isn't it? ;)

> I don't see any particular "significant issues with the image that make
> it a physical impossibility" with it though, apart from the sizes, which
> could be edited.  Specially in the face of HDR photography making photos
> look like CG, like this one with 3 min exposure:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelpixcomau/5452674118/

That one looks real to me.

Now in terms of the OP, the size of the moon in the image is physically 
impossible compared to the size of the sun.  There is no place on the 
Earth that the moon will photograph as that large without some sort of 
photo trickery.  None - absolutely NONE.

There are times the moon *looks* larger than it really is due to 
atmospheric distortions, but never on such a huge scale.

Then there's the position of the crescent itself - as Stephen pointed 
out.  The only place it would orient that way relative to the horizon is 
at the equator, not at the north pole.

Then there's the water, as Warp said, even with global warming, there's 
just far too much water for it to be really at the north pole.

Everything about that image screams "fake" to me.  There's something 
about the way the horizon is lit that doesn't look right to me, either.

Jim

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