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I think this one has been shopped, but I'm not too good at telling the signs yet. I thought I saw evidence of photoshop at the edges of the water, but it could just be ripples in the surface too. Anyone?
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Doesn't seem shopped to me. It would be a difficult one to do, but then again it doesn't seem perfect. The wet mud around the water makes it seem more realistic to me.
I vote real.
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My guess: a real puddle with photoshop additions. The bit corresponding to Western Australia looks genuine, but Tasmania looks fake, the way it's imposed on the tyre marks. I reckon someone said `Hey, this puddle looks like a map of Australia' and remedied the parts where it didn't.
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According to Army News, produced for the Australian Army, the picture was taken in Sudan by ADF personnel.
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If Australians were the ones taking and commenting on this photo, isn't the image "upside down" relative to the way most Aussies view the world? ...or is that just a fun myth about Aussies that we Americans are told to make us feel sheepish?
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Besides, if Tazzie were at the top, that would make it hard for Australian women to get around.
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quote:"Tasmania" looks like a pile of damp mud, rather than a hole.
Of course - because it's Adelaide that's a hole.
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Though that might be an idea for Worth1000 - Maps could appear anywhere (Cows, puddles, flocks of any animals).
Since the puddle works well with the "texture" of the surroundings I'd also vote "real puddle and coincidence" with possibly some digging and/or photoshopping for Tasmania and one or two other places.
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I agree that Tasmania looks faked. The rest is tough to tell. It's certainly plausible that parallel tire ruts would leave two elongated sections possibly joined in the center by a low spot in the road.
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I don't know why you'd think Tasmania is faked. It looks like they messed up that bit, but got the rest of the puddle right.
Real, just with a strange/slightly messed up Tasmania.
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quote:Originally posted by Felessan: According to Army News, produced for the Australian Army, the picture was taken in Sudan by ADF personnel.
Well that seems like a reliable source, and I've never been to Sudan, but the vegetation and dirt sure looks Australian.
I see no evidence of photoshop, and if it is photoshop is very subtly done because a number of features are the wrong shape (e.g. the Great Australian Bight shape is quite wrong).
I think I can see evidence of digging around the north-west and south of Western Australia (the latter looks like some wet area's been filled in to the right of the stick). I also suspect Tasmania's been dug artificially. The East coast looks untouched.
I vote real photo; a cute natural feature, slightly enhanced by digging.
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Based on that, I don't think it's really an Australian army photo from Sudan.
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Based on that, I don't think it's really an Australian army photo from Sudan.
Why not?
Well why should it be, since the army page photo is a cropped version of the original? Besides that, the army page is a light hearted page titled "only joking"; and the soil and vegetation looks Australian.
ETA: I guess it's possible that an Army guy in Sudan sent his photo to the Army newspaper (who cropped it) and then also released it on the internet (uncropped). It just seems unlikely to me. The VERY Australian-looking background swings it for me.
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Perhaps Me, no really could tell us where he found the picture in the OP. I've waded through a couple of hundred photos on the DOD website, but with no luck.
I agree the background looks Aussie. My first thought was that it was of somewhere in WA. The main reason I feel a bit iffy about it being what it claims to be is that defence publications are usually careful to print the name of whoever it was who took a photo they publish. If they didn't, it may be because it was sent in anonymously.
The fact that the Army News version is a cropped version of another picture doesn't push me one way or the other. I still think it was faked, but I think it was done physically, not via photoshop.
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Sorry, forgot to mention that I recieved the original in an email titled "Nature the cartographer" without much comment, so the email I received doesn't even try to give an idea of the origin of the image.
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Just found another copy of it here and left a message to ask if the user has any light to shed
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Actually, the longer I look at it, the less I consider Tasmania a fake. The reason? Well, actually, quite a lot of puddles af a general shape like Australia, with two Bulges east and west and a narrower part in the middle. And someone in this thread was quite right, that the north coast is not too convincing. It may need Tasmania to get the idea.
On the other hand, I never understood how you could see The Big J on potato chips, either.
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the photo itself looks real... it's the story behind it that is dubious.
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The puddle looks real, though I suspect the likeness to Australia is partially due to the angle of the photo...
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