Please don't tell me this is photoshopped

I want to believe the fantasy

http://imgur.com/3ydQX​.jpg

(my current desktop)

Ok, i wont tell.

Dang, those are some big hats.

Flo wrote in post #9007994
Dang, those are some big hats.

What is it they say about big hats?

gjl711 wrote in post #9007998
What is it they say about big hats?

I thought that was feet or hands.......lol

Flo wrote in post #9008017
I thought that was feet or hands.......lol

So it's
"Big feet means big head"?

gjl711 wrote in post #9008025
So it's
"Big feet means big head"?

Yes..yes..I beleive that's it......:p

Flo wrote in post #9008027
Yes..yes..I beleive that's it......:p

Hmm.. I wear a size 15 shoe. No wonder my head is enormous.

The hats don't look right, as there are no shadows under the brims. There's also a white halo that indicates carelessness in the cutting and pasting. I don't think an elephant would subject itself to having its eye covered, unless it was drugged or beaten into submission. The monocles do look pasted on in post processing -- again, no shadows. The female homo sapiens, however, appears to have been in the shoot.

If it's not photo shopped, then it should be. Somebody ought to do something about those chains. They take away from the theme of the piece -- unless the theme is meant to demonstrate how members of an intelligent species that live in a complex hierarchical society in the wild can be subjugated and used as props in some primate's idea of a clever photograph.

TheHoff wrote in post #9007944
I want to believe the fantasy

Looks totally normal to me.

joedlh wrote in post #9008080
If it's not photo shopped, then it should be. Somebody ought to do something about those chains. They take away from the theme of the piece

So subjugating an obviously intelligent species to chained restriction for the sake of your art is OK as long as you remove the evidence afterwards?




I do appreciate your thoughtful criticism.

Where did you find this Hoff?

Flo wrote in post #9008187
Where did you find this Hoff?

A box of old photos in my dad's closet?

(nah, it just came in on the tubes one day)

I am not going to comment on "shopped or not" but i will say its certainly interesting!

TheHoff wrote in post #9008152
So subjugating an obviously intelligent species to chained restriction for the sake of your art is OK as long as you remove the evidence afterwards?

First of all, I am not a card carrying member of an extremist animals rights movement. However, I do volunteer for a marine mammal and sea turtle rescue organization. It gives one an appreciation that species lower on the phylogenetic tree do have intelligence and needs that deserve recognition. So the image does bother me in principle. However, as you mentioned, it is an archival print from an under-the-bed shoe-box collection. It has worth, if only from a historical perspective, perhaps even to illustrate the subjugation theme that I mentioned. But for casual or entertainment use, I would try to minimize the circumstances under which the shot was taken and lose the chains. Fair enough?