Ok,perhaps I'm now overly cynical, but does the accompanying picture of the couple embracing look a like a poor cut-and-paste job to anyone else?
They used a super-wide angle lens . . . look at the crowd photo in the accompanying slide show; you can see the effect better.
No its real. The halo around her head is probably just some backlighting, although it does look like a white fringe from pasting. Somebody may have thought her head blended into the background too much and put a little line around it to bring it out.
It's just the way the light is hitting the wife's hair. If it were that bad a job, the husband would be outlined too.
" Ok,perhaps I'm now overly cynical, but does the accompanying picture of the couple embracing look a like a poor cut-and-paste job to anyone else? "
Is that supposed to be a 60 year old woman the young man is embracing ?