Simply Breathtaking

[ToolManTimTaylor]

This 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. Clear water huh?! They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons!



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[mopars1]

Fantastic picture! It would be nice to visit a place up that way once in my life. Breathtaking.

 

[Cumminsman]

WOW! .

 

[bmoeller]

:--) :--)

 

[TowPro]

I bet its a fake. Note the light reflecting on the bottom, it indicated there was light below, and I have seen clear water, but not sure where you can have that much detail at 700 foot under the water. Plus the camera shows both above and below the water line, I think that would show a distinct line on the lense, and maybe a couple drops of water sprayed on the lense.



But it is pretty

 

[loncray]

That is one of the more spectacular uses of Photoshop I've ever seen.

 

[wsmalley]

I have seen that poster before in a friends room. It' a beautiful photo-editing job. It's one of those motivational-word-poster things. You know, they have a picture of that, one of a guy running up the stairs of a stadium, and a couple others. They have some motivational word underneath them with a quote by a famous person at the bottom.

 

[Rman]

i got that in an email about 3-4 years ago... cool pic though!

 

[Shovelhead]

Neat picture but... ... .....



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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