To: Congressman Billybob
We need a hi-res scan of this photo... I just enlarged it on my desktop. The resolution is too grainy to make out the details of the photo.
Of interest are
1. Date stamp in bottom right labelled 1-31-98
2. Painting over door is unique.
3. Can see outside of door to landscape
4. Who was the photographer? Ask that person where the photo was taken.
5. Obtain records of Gray Davis' day on 1-31-98 and identify venues
6. Enlarge image of check. We can see who signed the check and for how much.
49 posted on 10/8/02 8:38 PM Central by bonesmccoy
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To: IVote2
I have looked at a 1500 x 1800 image at 800%. The pixelation to which you refer is on the left side of Davis as well. It might be optical shadowing from a bounce flash. The hair crosses those boundaries intact without unusual fringing. I don't think it's been digitally doctored, particularly because of the scanning patterns that cross the boundaries vertically between the faces and the backdrop. Such noise would be VERY hard to replicate. In short, don't look at the picture for clues (where a fraud artist would work hard to get rid of evidence), look at the total image. I think it's real.
67 posted on 10/8/02 11:45 PM Central by Carry_Okie
Just FYI
The worth of that painting might be $19.95 for canvas and paint, but its price is probably in excess of $6,000. That means it was probably insured. And the insurance documents would say WHERE IT WAS LOCATED.
Plus, ordinary PR photographs taken with the Camp Fire Girls or whomever with Davis in 1998, have to exist by the dozens. Find the painting in those, and the office of the photo is identified.
It is a telling line from the article above that "reporters and Davis supporters have determined...." There has to be one real reporter in California. There has to be one with the brains to realize the most unique thing in the picture -- besides Davis and Angele who both might lie -- is that painting. Where is Banacek when we need him?
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