Stunning Picture Of An Iceberg

Photograph snapped by a Newfoundland rig manager shows an enormous Iceberg

This is an amazing shot. 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 picture. They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons.

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The explanation reproduced above is a charming story, but it isn't true, nor is the image accompanying it a real photograph of an iceberg. This picture is actually a composite 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).

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Sunset From Space

Sunset From Space

Day & Night At The Same Time

Photograph taken from the Space Shuttle Columbia shows sunset over Europe and Africa

This photo is absolutely beautiful. You have to read the text below to have a better understanding of what you are viewing. It is the historic too as this is the last mission for Columbia.

The photograph attached was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudless day.The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting.Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities' lights.The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert .Note that the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona that's it's still daylight in Dublin, London, Lisbon, and Madrid .The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness.In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands;below them to the right are the Maderia Islands; A bit below are the Canary Islands; and further South, close to the farthest western point of Africa, are the Cape Verda Islands. Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during day time and night time.

To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen.

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The contradictory explanations of this photograph's origins given in the accompanying text are the first clue that something's amiss here: this image can't have been both "taken by the crew on board the Columbia" and "taken via satellite." Actually, the notation about this image's having been "taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission" was added only after the fatal break-up of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its re-entry on 1 February 2003. Well before then, this picture had been circulating as a photograph "taken via satellite, on a cloudless day."

Although this image does accurately depict the landforms described and the positioning of lighted cities to the right of the day-night terminator line, it doesn't represent an actual Earth view one might see from space. This photograph is a digital composite formed by merging multiple images from different sources (primarily satellites), the same technique used to create the stunning iceberg photograph.

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Stunning Iceberg