Alas! It was Photoshop, not Irene, that delivered the shark into that street.
The caption for the photo said: This picture was taken in Puerto Rico shortly after Hurricane Irene ravaged the island. Yes, that’s a shark swimming down the street next to a car, and this is exactly why authorities in NYC are warning people not to go swimming in flood waters after a hurricane. Sharks go where fish go, and fish go where water goes, and if that water (and those subsequent fish) happen to be right outside your front door, then guess where that freakin’ shark’s going to be?!
The Washington Post spoiled all the fun by identifying the shark photo used for the pranked image.
Wikipedia says that it is perfectly safe to swim in the immediate vicinity of Whale Sharks, Rhincodon typus, the largest extant species of fish which can reach a length of over 40′.
Whale Sharks are docile, only eat plankton, and the worst thing that can happen is the Whale Shark might accidentally bump you with his majestic tail.
Still, the diver in the Daily Mail photo looks concerned about getting sucked into that enormous gaping maw with all the plankton and finding out the hard way what those more than 300 rows of tiny teeth can do.
Who knows? The occasional diver may go nicely as an accent with one’s plankton.
Pictured above is a saltwater crocodile named Brutus, missing his right front leg, who regularly performs for tourists on the Adelaide River, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Darwin.
Adelaide River Cruises specially advertises jumping crocodile cruises, and the crocs (compensated with free meals of buffalo meat) obligingly perform. Brutus is estimated to be 5.5 meters (18′) long.
The photo has made a sensation, and NT News ran it past a number of experts who basically agree that it has not been Photoshopped.
I want to see the bigger one that took off that front leg.
Fred Lapides posted this with a joking comment that sometimes it’s better not to take the stairs.
He got it via CJDurrek, who made the same kind of I’ll-wait-for-the-elevator joke, and who also did not identify the actual location.
I researched a bit, but could not find a version of the photo with identification of the locale. My guess is that this is a photograph of the Huangshan steps.
Kyle Reed has a photoessay with shots that look pretty close.
William Koch (one of the notorious conservative donor Koch Brothers) bought the 2×3″ ferrotype taken by an unknown photographer in Fort Sumner, New Mexico in late 1879 or early 1880 at a Denver auction last Saturday.
This carte de visite image, commonly referred to as the Upham tintype (named for its longtime owner Frank Upham, a nephew of the original owner Dan Dedrick, one of Billy the Kid’s outlaw friends) is the only image of the famous Western gunfighter believed by experts to be authentic.
Wikipedia article on the Kid, which discusses the photograph.
Three Bassets Bleu de Gascogne from the Ashland Bassets of Warrenton, Virginia: Vitamine, Veloce, Verdict (photo: Karen L. Myers)
Karen’s photo essay (771 photos!) of the Second Day of the Bryn Mawr Hound Show was uploaded yesterday. Day 2, Saturday, is the show itself, the hound classes and the pack trials.
Friday evening’s high point is the horn blowing competition.
Karen just got her photos of the first day of the Bryn Mawr Hound Show loaded on her web-site in time to coincide with the appearance of a few of her later photos in an article by Sarah Montague on the New York City NPR web-site.
Sarah’s article includes a recording of the horn blowing competiton.
The Bryn Mawr Hound Show, dating back to 1914, held on the grounds of the Radnor Hunt Club, is the oldest hound show held in the United States.
The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in Chile, 870 km. south of Santiago, over the weekend sent a cloud of ash 10 km (6 miles) high complete with volcanic lightning. The combined spectacle provided a field day for photographers.
Church of the Holy Redeemer, built 1035 to house a fragment of the True Cross.
I had not ever hear of the abandoned city of Ani until seeing Boogie Man’s photoessay.
Ani, located in Eastern Turkey, was in the 10th Century the capital of an Armenian principality. In its prime, the city’s population was similar in size (100,000 — 200,000) to Constantinople, Baghdad, and Cairo. It became the seat of the Catholicoi, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in 992.
Ani was sacked by the Seljuk Turks in 1064, and by the Mongols in 1236. The city declined over subsequent centuries, ceasing to be a dynastic capitol around 1400, and losing the Armenian Catholicosate in 1441. Ani gradually dwindled to a small settlement within the walls of the former city, and was completely abandoned by the 18th century.
The site was excavated and documented by the Russian linguist and archaeologist Nicholas Marr 1892-93 and 1904-17.
Frank Oscar Larson was an auditor from Flushing, Queens, who late in life developed an interest in street photography. He would travel to Manhattan early in the morning on weekends with a Rolleiflex camera to record images of the Bowery, Chinatown, Hell’s Kitchen or Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, and the Cloisters.
45 years after his death, his collection of negatives was discovered in an old cardboard box, resulting in an exhibition earlier this year at the Perfect Exposure Gallery in Los Angeles.
