Iceberg top to bottom

Holy shit.....yeah, the Titanic makes a little more sense now.

Its cool, but I'm going to call fake. If that thing is that big there's no way the water would be clear enough to be able to get a photo from that far back.


edit* whats really funny is that your link actually tells the real story. It's actually 4 images and the top and bottom shots were taken at opposite poles.

From the very webpage linked in the OP:

Latest news I have received regarding this photo.


From: "Peter Bowen"



November 2003 14:21

Subject: Iceberg Photo on your website

Dear Headmaster Slater,

Your website http://dovergrammar.co.uk/Gems/geography-iceberg.htm is misleading and contains a fake!!!
You really should research your information before posting information which is not true.
Origins: Charming story, but this picture is actually an image called 'The Essence of Imagination," marketed by Successories, the "premiere source for motivational media."

This image was 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):

The iceberg image is a digital composite that I designed to illustrate the concept of "what you see is not necessarily what you get". As an underwater photographer I knew that my "vision" of what a big iceberg looks like was impossible to get in reality so I had to create it. The image exists in nature but due to water visibility is not possible to capture on film.

There are 4 separate images involved; the sky, the background, the top iceberg (shot in Antarctica), and the underwater iceberg (shot above water in Alaska and flipped in the final composite).

Last updated: 2 July 2001
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I also received an Email from Jason Ellis saying:-



7th Feb 2004

I just wonder why you have this fake iceberg picture on your site for everyone to see. It is a fake picture that you are falsely claiming to be real. Why must people go on the internet and see images and stories that seem to be real but are fake. You are setting a terrible example by doing this and should remove the image immediately.
Thanks
Jason Ellis
Here is the link to find out the truth about the picture.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/iceberg.asp



Well, thanks for the above information, as you can see, I haven't removed it, but have updated the information so that it is no longer misleading. 7th Feb 2004.

TerryK wrote: Its cool, but I'm going to call fake. If that thing is that big there's no way the water would be clear enough to be able to get a photo from that far back.


edit* whats really funny is that your link actually tells the real story. It's actually 4 images and the top and bottom shots were taken at opposite poles.

HA! Busted posting, carpenter Boy! Told you.
Icebergs exist in cold water. VERY cold water. Read: Very DARK water. It's a total fake. Perhaps enhanced off real murky images, but still fake.
Typical rule of thumb is only 1/3rd of the total mass is above water. Interesting that this would get posted as we are at the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Only 2 years away from the 100th of the start of the War To End All Wars. Funny how time flies when man is trying to annihilate each other.

Wow some of you folks are unreal, just showed the photo for what it was not claiming anymore for what its worth and even put it up in quotes so as to not claim the so called thunder, geese guys get a life...or just stay on the net where you're really brilliant

Not trashin you. Just stating opinions. Don't take it personal.

scooter5002 wrote: Not trashin you. Just stating opinions. Don't take it personal.

I was about to edit my last post because I reread the above Ya certainly did not try to pass the pic off as real just thought it was a cool pic and i'm sure not far from real