NYCkayaker Wow.

[Dennis Wiener]

Here are links to some video I shot on the trip. FWIW they don't splash 
much when they dive, and in fact leave a flat spot on the surface of the 
water called a fluke print.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8571347813391096092&q=humback+whales+site%3Avideo.google.com&total=159&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6039848885393592218&q=humback+whales+dennis+wiener+site%3Avideo.google.com&total=2&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

David Gottlieb wrote:
> I hate to be the one to break the amazement, (and I hope I'm wrong) but
> those photos appear to be extremely fallacious. The Daily Mail is known for
> its sensational content... These photos unfortunately appear to be all out
> of proportion to the size of the whale and the kayakers. In my opinion, the
> photos of the kayakers and whales appear to be taken from different photos
> and digitally re-mastered. Also, the water is much too calm and the
> background is nearly the same on all pics. And in one of the photos, the
> shadows on the kayakers and on the whale appear to be coming from different
> angles. (Now take a look at poor Lisa Marie Presley to the right of the
> whale article.... She appears to be a beached whale - but that photo is
> probably digitally manipulated also....)
>
> There was an apparently a similar fake photo early last year (if my memory
> serves me well) of a swimmer and a whale in national geographic that caused
> a stir...
>
>
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> On 3/4/08 10:56 AM, "bonnie13 at earthlink.net" <bonnie13 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Check this out - 
>>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=52
>> 4069&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
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