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Iceberg

dodgyessexbird

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Someone showed me this picture today at work and I thought it was amazing.

But now, back at home, I find it just looks a bit fake?

I still think it's amazing, but is it real?

cs.wisc.edu/~rajwar/base/PICS/iceberg.jpg
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Where would it be taken from though? You should be able to see the water line half submerging the lens.

Also, if it was a single image you'd have to have a pretty clever half-and-half lens that could focus the images through water and air through which light travels in different ways.

I'm dubious. Good fun though.
 
It is indeed a fake photo, forget the details though. Maybe it's on snopes?
 
Ah well.....thanks for putting me straight.
Still an excellent image though :)
 
It rather unfortunately reminded me of the AIDS iceberg of 1980s infomercial fame.
 
look like an amateur photoshop picture
The details differ hugely between the two halves.
Is the sun also directly below the ice berg too?
 
Very pretty, but
- it's "taken" from quite a way away, and you can't see anywhere near that far underwater, even very clear water
- the beams of light in the water are coming from the wrong place
- there doesn't seem to be any surface to the water close-up
- it's just blatantly not a real photograph

I reckon also that iceburgs wouldn't look much like that underwater.
 
For the record ...
This picture is actually a composite image called “The Essence of Imagination,” marketed by Successories, the “premiere source for motivational media” ...

The image itself was actually produced in 1999 by Ralph A. Clevenger, a professional nature and underwater photographer who is also a member of the faculty of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. As Mr. Clevenger explained, this image is not a single photograph but a composite of four different photographs (not all taken in the same place) ...
SOURCE: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/giant-newfoundland-iceberg/
 
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