An image circulating online shows a giant sea turtle with two people kneeling behind it. Is this photo real or fake? The image is real The turtle is closer to the camera than the people behind it, making it appear slightly larger than it really is. The photo was originally posted on the Pedalling About blog, which documents the biking adventures of Laura and Paddy, a couple from South London. In a post entitled, Adventures in the Amazon: Cayenne to Macapa, they describe encountering a large sea turtle laying eggs, “A walk along the beaches to the east of the city rewarded us with the astonishing sight of a turtle laying her eggs in the middle of the day, and we watched her mesmerized.” Since being posted in May 2012, the image has resurfaced on hundreds of websites, where it has been pointed out how large the creature appears in relation to the people behind it. Often images such as this are created by “forced perspective” – in which a creature’s distance to the camera is closer than a person in the background, creating the illusion of a very large animal. To clear things up, we contacted Laura from the Pedalling [...]
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