I thought some might like to see what lies beneath the iceberg. Check out this pic.
The Story goes "This picture came from a Rig Manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. Johns, Newfoundland. They actually have to divert the path of these things away from the rig by towing them with ships! Anyway, in this particular case the water was calm & the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and click this pic. They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons."
The picture was not taken by an oil drilling worker and is not a simple, single photograph. The creator of the picture, underwater photographer Ralph Clevenger had this to say.
"I created the image as a way of illustrating the concept of what you get is not necessarily what you see. As a professional photographer I knew that I couldn't get an actual shot of an iceberg the way I envisioned it so I created the final image by compositing several images I had taken. The twohalves of the iceberg are 2 separate shots, one taken in Alaska and one taken in Antarctica (neither is underwater). The only underwater part is the background taken off the coast of California. The sky is the last component. It took a lot of research on lighting and scale to get the berg to look real."
It still looks real and cool.
Iceberg's are big
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Hate to spoil the fun, but that picture is a digital composite. Check out the Urban Legend homepage.http://www.snopes.com/photos/iceberg.asp
I think I spent way too many hours there. Fun reading though.
I think I spent way too many hours there. Fun reading though.
Re: Iceberg's are big
rydwhite wrote:I thought some might like to see what lies beneath the iceberg. Check out this pic.
The Story goes "This picture came from a Rig Manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. Johns, Newfoundland. They actually have to divert the path of these things away from the rig by towing them with ships! Anyway, in this particular case the water was calm & the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and click this pic. They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons."
The picture was not taken by an oil drilling worker and is not a simple, single photograph. The creator of the picture, underwater photographer Ralph Clevenger had this to say.
"I created the image as a way of illustrating the concept of what you get is not necessarily what you see. As a professional photographer I knew that I couldn't get an actual shot of an iceberg the way I envisioned it so I created the final image by compositing several images I had taken. The twohalves of the iceberg are 2 separate shots, one taken in Alaska and one taken in Antarctica (neither is underwater). The only underwater part is the background taken off the coast of California. The sky is the last component. It took a lot of research on lighting and scale to get the berg to look real."
It still looks real and cool.
so its fake?
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