[FreedomCalls]

It's a two-year old photo. It has nothing to do with the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

CALGARY FLAME-OUT

That's quite a tsunami photo the Calgary Herald has there on today's front page. Problem is, it turns out it's not from this tsunami.

VisualEditors.com guru Robb Montgomery posted the page this afternoon and wondered if the photo was real. Many had suspicions, because it hadn't moved on the wires and it looked a bit like it might have been Photoshopped. But Nicole Bogdas of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel enlisted a photo editor and actually did a little legwork:

Here's the story: This is a two-year-old Reuters photo of a tsunami in China. You might remember the event: a bunch of people went to watch the waves and it turned out to be bigger than they thought. Anyway, the doctor gave the photo to the mayor of Calgary--he'd saved it for fundraising purposes. The Mayor showed it during a presentation on tsunami aid and the herald asked if they could have it thinking it was from this tsunami. Apparently their director of photography wasn't on last night.

Ouch.

[FreedomCalls]

I left out the credit for that discovery. It is from Newsdesigner.com:

http://www.newsdesigner.com/archives/000398.php

Apologies.

[derheimwill]

This whole thread was a newbie mis-post. Check gbob's history. MIS-POST! Doh... Nevermind.


Have a nice day.