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Feb. 15th, 2010 12:21 pmThe Nature Conservancy's best nature photos of 2009
There are some very lovely photos there but, sadly, the prevalence of photo enhancement software has made me very skeptical of certain types of photos. Ones like the first runner up, the one of Mt Ranier, and some others looked fake to me, like the photographer has taken a genuine photo and tarted it up with computer enhancements. Maybe they didn't, but they look unreal to me, and knowing that people *can* fake up photos electronically that way makes it hard for me to credit that they really got shots like that legitimately.
There are some very lovely photos there but, sadly, the prevalence of photo enhancement software has made me very skeptical of certain types of photos. Ones like the first runner up, the one of Mt Ranier, and some others looked fake to me, like the photographer has taken a genuine photo and tarted it up with computer enhancements. Maybe they didn't, but they look unreal to me, and knowing that people *can* fake up photos electronically that way makes it hard for me to credit that they really got shots like that legitimately.