All I have to do now is add the phony EXIF.
Posted on 02/02/2013 11:21:47 PM PST by Nachum
I'm sure we've all seen by now the "photo op" of President Obama shooting skeet. If he's shooting skeet then I'm Daffy Duck.
Skeet [clay disks of bright colors] are thrown by a machine from two towers erected to the right and left of the shooter. (There are other set ups like ones used for "sporting clays" but that isn't represented in the White House photo release.) Usually, the skeet is thrown about ten or more feet above the ground. The shooters are arranged in a semi-circle at various stations around the semi-circle. The "group" of shooters lines up at one stage and each shoot in turn. They then move to the next station and shoot again. Each spot is designed for the shooter to shoot above the horizon. This is for safety and learning too that when in the field, a hunter never shoots a shotgun below the horizon. A small fact that Vice President Dick Cheney forgot when he wounded his hunting partner a few years ago. Skeet are then thrown either from right to left or left to right or both at once. It is very challenging and the shooter either uses a double barrel shotgun or a semi automatic shotgun. Each shooter is limited to two shots.
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Probably a real picture, but the premise that he shoots often or shoots trap/skeet is false. Anyone who shoots instinctively knows that the pic shows an amateur who has no idea what he’s doing - he was probably coached so he wouldn’t look like a real pansy for the pic.
That’s the skeet range at Camp David? I’d love to believe the conspiracy theories, but it does look like the photo was taken there, the camera operator to the left of “home plate,” with the road on the other side and trees in the background.
send in the flies!
Those are not average flies, they are minidrones from Iran!
I doubt it is real because of one main reason. They would have shotguns of all sizes, shapes and they would have some guns for left handers.
I am sure the skeet shoot has a person in charge and he would never have let the President of the USA shoot left handed without a gun that chambers on the left side
The picture is real.
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Surprised ‘they’ didn’t just happen to have a newspaper laying there with the ‘date on it’...s/
Remember Clinton’s ‘Propaganda Czar’ complaining about a picture ‘invading their privacy while they were dancing on a secluded beach?’
When all gathered said “What picture?” a picture of a very phony looking couple of Clintoons miraculously showed up EVERYWHERE with the ‘startled’ propagandist saying ‘That one!’
“[why does my PS6 switch to a weird grid overlay thingy at 600x zoom?]”
Don’t have an answer to that one.
You are right. It just doesn’t look right in so many ways. What else do we expect from this adminstration?
BookMark
Dang - he used my camera! Well, same camera I have (and it’s a good one - nothing but the best for the Fraud in Chief, I guess).
From Zippy’s left ear, go to the right to the edge of the picture.
It almost looks like a sign or and overhang for a structure.
Does that give a clue as to location?
Judging from the lack of flies around his head, I'd say that he's deet shooting. That must be what the smoke-like vapor is coming out of the barrel and right side ports.
All I have to do now is add the phony EXIF.
I only need one reason, he is a proven fraud.
Picture has to be fake.Obama can’t pass a background check....
Picture has to be fake.Obama can’t pass a background check....
I know, I know. BUT!!! Presuming the photog was at or near home plate, the road behind the Prez is pretty wide. I still say that looks like a cart path, not the road/parking lot to the right of the range.
;-)
p.s. If he has been shooting the cycle (or whatever it’s called in skeet) why isn’t he wearing a vest with extra shells so he can reload and move to the next position in a timely manner, like a good sportsman? [ I guess he has people who reload the gun for him after each position, when he goes shooting all the time??? ]
Looks like something nailed to a tree.
Sign.
Bird feeder.
Who knows.
The whole Catoctin area is absolutely lousy with huge glacier rocks and boulders.
They must’ve cleared them all out.
Especially since GHWB and WJC are lefties, not to mention having left handed guns available for guests. Good pickup.
Except that gun is an over-under breech loader. Works for lefties like me just fine. (but I am not a skeet shooter).
For All the Skeet Truthers...
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/02/02/The-Obama-Shotgun-Photo-EXIF-Data-Shows
Earlier today, as I hadn’t seen the tweets from Obama’s camp saying he was shooting on August 4th of last year, I checked the pic’s Exif data on Flickr—a great feature they include for photo wonks to see the aperture, shutter speed, etc. when they’re checking out others’ uploads. “Date taken: August 4, 2012.” Okay, cool.
Later on, when people started throwing up a screen grab of some Reuters story saying that Obama went golfing that same day, I got rather pissed off. It’s extremely easy to do a round of golf and a round of shooting in the same day with plenty of sunlight to spare.
So I went back over to the photo’s metadata page to get a screenshot, and I realized this time that it also included the time as well as the date. Great! I’ll make my case that much more cleanly—
“Taken on August 4, 2012 7:19 PM PST.”
No. That cannot be right. Can it?
So that’s 10:19 PM eastern. Sundown that day was 8:16 PM eastern.
Well, can’t tweet that. It’ll just drive everyone even more bananas.
So, before this becomes a thing on the right, it seems very likely that Pete Souza’s camera is set to the wrong time zone. Looking over the rest of the Flickr feed, this seems to be the case. This photo of Obama at the December 16th Newtown vigil, for instance, is stamped at 7:59 PM PST, when Obama went on stage after 5:30 PM PST and the event was over before 6:15 PM PST.
DSLR cameras aren’t like cell phones in that they automatically change time zones (and honestly, I don’t bother setting the time on mine), so it seems to match up that with both photos, the time was eastern rather than Pacific. 7:19 is plenty of time before sundown, which would also explain why it doesn’t look like a particularly sunny day.
So, everyone—please, for your own sakes, CTFO. With the resources at his disposal, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that, yes, the President can play a round of golf, fly to Camp David, and shoot a shotgun at least once all in the same day.
I’ve reached out to Pete Souza for confirmation, for what it’s worth.
Meanwhile, something which interests me far more: ‘90s rockers-turned-hipster-cult My Bloody Valentine today announced the release date of their long-awaited return album, and that release date is... right now. Unfortunately, they appear to have underestimated the size of their cult, and the server instantly crashed. So, once it’s no longer a universal 403 error, enjoy.
Alrighty then ... Time for more coffee.
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