Great White Shark Stalks Kayak
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it's totally edited! it doesn't even match up.... AND the front of the "shark" has white markings on it, looking a bit like a young orca.... however the tail looks sharkish. There's too many questionable items in this pic...
Doll, deffinatly a shark by the orientation of the fins, and the tail is obviously shark shapped (longer on top, seemingly making a sweep from left to right in relation to the dorsal) white spot is just a reflection on a wave. It deffinatly lines up if we assume it was out of a mag. 
that is definately a great white shark DD, not an orca. all aquatic mammals have a horizontal tail. all fish have vertical tails. that one is defintaly vertical. also, great whites are gray/black on top and white on the bottom. this is ts that they blend in. water from above looks very dark, and so anything viewing the shark from above would see the dark back and it would blend into the dark water. water from below looking up looks very light, so the white belly of the shark would blend in with the lighter water. that's why almost every aquatic creature is colored in such a way. dark backs, pale bellies
Me too!Dangerdoll said:
After cropping the background, zooming in and getting rid of some pixel 'noise', I found the hill in the background to abruptly disappear at the seam. Even with a magazine fold, shouldn't the hill show up just a little bit?
And, the color of the sky is way off...
The color differences make the photo look like a fake.
But the water "reflections" seem to match.
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The hill IS there joe! It drops off suddenly but you can still see the light reflection along the top of the ridge. Being at a slight angle when scanned, of course the colors will be off from one page to the next.
It appears to be real. It is actually from a National Geographic magazine article. Read this....
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/sharkkayak.asp
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/sharkkayak.asp
