The pictures of this hole in the ground always amaze me! Not one picture that I have seen shows a human standing on the rim ... you know to give it perceptive ... the photographer seems to be able to get close ... but everybody else seems to be hundreds of feet away .... WHY?
It should be obvious that the whole is pretty hugh ...
Lock and Load Bro
I noticed that, too.
The answer is that the photographer wanted to capture the entire diameter of the hole from close range, so that the camera revealed the muddy water at the bottom. To do that, he used a very wide-angle lens, which greatly distorts the size of things, make objects further away appear much smaller than normal.
Although it creates the distortion you noted, it nice to see the entire hole — just reading the description in the text didn’t really capture it.
If you look behind the crater, there’s yellow police tape. Also, the whole “death meteorite” thing.