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Photo of eagle on Fort Snelling gravestone touches hearts, goes viral
Star Tribune ^
| August 10, 2011
| JON TEVLIN
Posted on 08/12/2011 11:12:03 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Beowulf9
Go to the link I posted above (post#36) and see the earlier June story which tells of the man who took the photo.
To: listenhillary
He has about 60 shots from different angles.
That's why I threw out CGI image... If he actually designed the scene in a 3D modeling software he could have hundred pictures, he could have a fly-through. CGI (computer generated graphics) are getting harder to distinguish from reality. There never was a photo, it was all staged in a 3D modeler. The haze was added to cover further disguise the image. As a hobbyist in computer graphics it's an interesting theory anyway... That's my conspiracy theorist opinion anyway, doing my best Jesse Ventura voice.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:48:11 AM PDT
by
xenob
To: thackney
While interesting. It’s fake. The shadow doesn’t show the eagle, just the marker.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:48:50 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: thackney
My computer has a new desktop. Thanks!
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:48:57 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: DManA
I didn’t say duplicate, but added it in case anyone wanted to see more info on this.
To: Keith in Iowa
“Shock and awe that the Red Star & Sickle would print such a picture that might stir patriotic feelings...”
Agreed - especially after their photogs looked at it and the others that the guy took of the eagle and obviously could tell it was a photoshop job yet deny it. /s
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:50:22 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
To: I Drive Too Fast
Thank you. I missed that other one. So did a lot of others from the postings here. Worth repeating I think.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:52:29 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: 21twelve
The author seems a bit befuddled by the fact that it struck a cord. A normal person would see it instantly.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:54:40 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Albion Wilde
What an awesome and patriotic photo!!!
To: listenhillary
He has about 60 shots from different angles.Do you have a link where we could view them? The only thing that sticks out to me is the eagle doesn't appear to cast a shadow.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:57:22 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: xenob
Damn it's dusty in here. My screen went all blurry.
Semper Fi...
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:58:52 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
To: DManA
NOT FAKE....read the article...:
"Not surprisingly, there were few readers who insisted that the photo was a fake. The bird was too big, they said. There's an aura of light on one side that reflects the use of Photoshop, said others.
"It's not Photoshopped," said Glick. "I did crop it [as did the newspaper]. If I had Photoshopped it, I wouldn't have the eagle's tail covering the name."
He also may have put the eagle on a different headstone to make the composition perfect, he said. "It's a good picture, but it could have been a much greater picture."
Glick took the photo with an older Nikon camera and a multi-purpose lens. He took more than 60 shots of the bird at the cemetery, from different angles and locations. Some are sharp, some are blurry. Some are not very well composed.
"But I just like the feel of this one."
Star Tribune photographers studied the original that Glick sent me and said there's nothing conclusive to say whether it is faked. They also looked at a photo of the bird from the front and said it seemed legitimate, and consistent with the other photo.
As for the size of the bird?
The tombstones rise about 22 inches from the ground. Eagles can grow to 37 inches tall. So the proportion seems right.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:59:40 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
To: xenob
Agree
very nice photo, I couldn’t help but wonder how that girl must have felt.
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posted on
08/12/2011 11:59:40 AM PDT
by
NoDRodee
(U>S>M>C)
To: listenhillary
"He has about 60 shots from different angles."And it could very well be a composite of 2 photos. And in art, that's fine. The other posters comment about the shadow is also a great observation.
Truth vs manipulation is a common topic with photographers, and many accept some processes as a means to a high impact end. Art.
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posted on
08/12/2011 12:00:25 PM PDT
by
two23
(Liberals Have Created a Culture of Lies)
To: xenob
Mary McHugh on her fiance's grave, Memorial Day 2007
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posted on
08/12/2011 12:02:42 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
To: PMAS
To: IYAS9YAS; thackney; listenhillary
I take it back. The shadow is a bit bigger than the other markers I can discern (it certainly is proportionately bigger then the marker at the closest point in the photo). The angle of the sun and the mist would diffuse detailed shadows of the eagle, and the bulk of the bird would roughly match the bulk of the marker.
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posted on
08/12/2011 12:03:34 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: IYAS9YAS
It would take a sick man to do this to the widow. Does anyone read the articles anymore?
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posted on
08/12/2011 12:06:36 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
To: Daffynition
Noah Miles Pier
Noah, 25, of Charlotte, NC, died while protecting freedom on February 16, 2010 in Marjah, Afghanistan. Born on July 28, 1984 in Fairfax, VA, Noah and his family relocated to Charlotte in March of 1995. Noah was an avid outdoorsman and was involved in the Police Explorers Program at CMPD as a teenager. He loved American Freestyle Martial Arts and earned a black belt rank. Noah fell in love with his childhood sweetheart Rachel, whom he was to marry when he returned home.
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posted on
08/12/2011 12:09:37 PM PDT
by
angcat
(RUN SARAH RUN!)
To: Professional
They never go ground level, Ive only seen an eagle on the ground one time, and that was when it was released from a cage at a native ceremony. Neat picture, but I dont think its real.Ahem....
And ahem...
Shot this fella while coming back from an airboat ride on Lake Kissimmee in Central Florida.
He is eating an armadillo. Or as we call them, "possum on the half-shell."
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posted on
08/12/2011 12:13:39 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Obama and the Dems - The flash mob raiding the Treasury.)
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