Fake Photo

Alex, at the Museum of Hoaxes, writes about a fake photo: Grand Teton and Wildflowers (click for a larger view). It's a photo by Adam Jones.

The image has become quite popular and has slowly been circulating around the internet. One person on the webshots message board writes:

What a wonderful blend of colours and God's creation. At the present time I live in Beijing and in the smog I often look at this picture and remember how beautiful the world can be.

But the image has met with skepticism from professional photographers.

Ralph Nordstrom writes:

This photograph is not possible. First of all, I have photographed at this same location in the Tetons. It's the famous Ox Bow bend in the river and I can vouch for the fact that there are no wildflowers growing anywhere around there, especially in such profusion. Second, the wildflowers' presented here are anything but wildflowers. Rather, they are a photograph from a lush domestic garden superimposed on the otherwise beautiful photograph of Mt. Moran and the river.

My initial impression of that photo is that it reminded me of a Thomas Kinkade painting.