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Guestbook for Loch Ness Monster Hoax Hunters!

Thanks For Participating Everybody!

From the lens My Amazing Nessie Photo!.

The contest is over, but I'm very happy to hear from you all! And I'm saving your clever comments.

How did I get that Easter Egg in there?

That's the oddest thing about this picture. I'm guessing I did it with Selective Colors, but I can't seem to duplicate the effect!

  • mamabush Mar 7, 2012 @ 3:18 pm | delete
    What a fun lens! I am skeptical of every thing I see now that I know how easy it is to manipulate photos. :)
  • TrentAdamsCA Feb 1, 2012 @ 7:36 pm | delete
    Such fun -- thanks! I want all my favorite mythical beasties to still be living out of sight, thriving and well, somewhere.

    Excellent point about how easy it is to manipulate images. I've been following Nessie news as long as you have -- and I get a kick out all kinds of news bits about sea monsters and improbably creatures.
  • Tipi Oct 20, 2011 @ 12:54 pm | delete
    I was watching a YouTube video a couple of days ago, and now I wish I had saved the link to share. Its called something like "unknown creatures", and i was amazed at what I saw. Made me wonder if aliens and sea creatures were doing the wild thing together. There was something about the Loch Ness Monster on there, and I was thinking about this lens. ~ Blessed!
  • SandyPeaks Jul 18, 2011 @ 1:03 pm | delete
    I spotted the wave movement around it and assumed it was a fixed object that had been altered but didn't think of another rock! Very sneaky!
  • Tipi Jan 1, 2011 @ 4:56 pm | delete
    I love the stories of the nessies, and would love to believe they are real.
    That is a very nice photo, I zoomed in on that one...hmmm, I just wonder!
  • rajdubli Sep 27, 2010 @ 6:40 pm | delete
    Was waiting for the solution, Thanks
  • Kate-Phizackerley Nov 16, 2009 @ 11:20 pm | delete
    Great photo
  • dvirtualist May 7, 2009 @ 9:22 pm | delete
    brilliant idea...
  • Timewarp May 7, 2009 @ 5:08 am | delete
    Verrrry clever...glad the mystery has been solved...for now!
  • JaguarJulie May 3, 2009 @ 8:22 am | delete
    OMG, Ellen! I am touched and so are all the cats out back along with the rest of the gang from First Coast No More Homeless Pets that they were the lucky recipients of this donation! And, a special thanks to our angel Janusz for his keen eye of observation for spotting the rock -- ah, leave it to a graphic designer! ;)
  • LostScribe Apr 30, 2009 @ 11:30 pm | delete
    That was so fun! Thank you for posting the solution. I was in danger of losing sleep over the suspense of it. :)
  • Christene Apr 26, 2009 @ 1:00 pm | delete
    I'm so glad you told us because it was driving me crazy! I was in photoshop playing with everything and never found it. :P
  • Greekgeek Apr 25, 2009 @ 12:58 pm | in reply to OneFootPutt | delete
    You may be onto something there :D
    Nope, no one has found the actual "my grandma could see this without her specs" Easter Egg.

    At this point I'm about ready to just give away the secret, but first I want to award a prize to the closest not-what-I-was-looking-for-but-still-a-good-answer answer! I have emailed that person. But that person needs to tell me which paypal addy to use, or I can't send the $5. *hint hint*

    In the MEANTIME, if anyone actually finds the trick -- Photoshop, Photoshop! -- let me know.
  • OneFootPutt Apr 25, 2009 @ 1:42 am | delete
    If you zoom in real close and stare at it long enough, it turns into one of those 3-D posters. With the image of the Squidoo Eye staring back at you. Did anyone guess this correctly yet?
  • LostScribe Apr 24, 2009 @ 9:40 pm | delete
    You can see the cut line in the photo where the waves have been transferred, but only around Nessie. Anything this size moving through the water would create a larger wake around it, with ripples continuing for quite a distance. Also, that close to shore you would see more of the creature and begin to see splashes.
  • kab Apr 22, 2009 @ 11:42 am | delete
    When the sun sets on the water it casts a reflection in a line straight from it. How high it is in the sky dictates how far from the horizon it begins. When the sun is at the horizon, the reflection starts at the horizon. In this photo it is brighter away from the sun then close to it.
  • Janusz Apr 22, 2009 @ 9:36 am | delete
    LOL Im not to sure, I thought maybe it´s a Rock, that is really there with neck & head added... but I´m not to sure :D
  • Greekgeek Apr 19, 2009 @ 8:39 am | delete
    ThomasC-- A specialist would probably agree with you, but I'm not sure what you mean by "different", and I'm sure my grandma couldn't see it. (Nor, for that matter, could I at this point; maybe this is karmic justice for my cracking jokes about bad eyesight.)
    For whomever finds this Easter Egg... it'll be screamingly obvious. ;)
  • ThomasC Apr 17, 2009 @ 10:12 pm | delete
    When looking at your photo in photoshop, you can see the pixels are different around the image of Nessie!
  • Apr 13, 2009 @ 8:41 pm | delete
    Interesting! And that is why this lens is being featured...

    http://www.squidoo.com/squidu-threads
  • Greekgeek Apr 12, 2009 @ 3:13 pm | in reply to flighty02 | delete
    Flighty, bless ya! As far as I can recollect, that really is what the waves were doing and looked like.

    Okay. It's Easter -- Happy Easter, everyone! -- and I'm going to give a HUGE tip so someone can find the Easter Egg.

    When there's more to an image than meets the eye
    PHOTOSHOP often knows why!
  • flighty02 Apr 11, 2009 @ 2:51 am | delete
    So much for my critical thinking :-/ ok how about..... the wave around your nessie is travelling the wrong way ie. seaward instead of landward... could your Granny see that without her specs? :-)
  • Greekgeek Apr 10, 2009 @ 9:55 am | delete
    Nochipra: Ah, but I could be faking everyone out when it's real because...oh nevermind, there IS an easter egg, but I'm still waiting for someone to find it. ;)
    Ramkitten: Sharp eyes! The coast of southern California runs west-northwest to east-southeast, and if a beach is a cove (note the coastline out behind the jetty), it can actually run east-west. I'm always getting confused driving down here, because I expect the Pacific to be "west" and not "south"!!!

    dsoltesz-- it's wave action. That I'm sure of. ;) Donno about the reflection, but as far as I know, that's all as it should be. (And grandma can't see that small.)

    flighty-- all very good logic and critical thinking, which is quite important when you run into one of these "Amazing" photos, but my grandma probably wouldn't be able to read your note without her specs. :D

    Tip to everyone: Sometimes "Amazing" photos look even more "Amazing" when you examine them in Photoshop. ;)
  • flighty02 Apr 10, 2009 @ 3:25 am | delete
    Well, your photo shows Nessie, a plesiosaur, which has been extinct for 65 million years and studies show that these long necked reptiles could not lift their heads 'swan like' out of the water, they used their long neck to feed off the sea floor (Loch Ness "monster" or "Nessie" - The Skeptic's Dictionary)... so your photo simply has to be a fake ;-)
  • dsoltesz Apr 10, 2009 @ 1:17 am | delete
    There isn't a reflection/shadow cast by The Monster falling towards the camera like I'd expect to see. There are strange shadows in front and behind it, but those could just be water disturbance caused by wave action.
  • susannaduffy Apr 10, 2009 @ 12:46 am | delete
    Where did you meet my grandmother? She could always tell if anything were real without her glasses
  • Ramkitten Apr 10, 2009 @ 12:44 am | delete
    Okay, wait ... California, winter, sunset. Now, looking at the angle of this photo ... well, the sun doesn't set directly west all the time (actually, only two days of the year, I believe). There's an arc to it, and, depending on what time of year it is, the sun sets either south of west or north of west, but ... does the proof that it's fake in where the sun is setting in this photo? Or am I a complete dork? I need to take out my alternative navigation stuff (from Search & Rescue) and check that out.
  • Nochipra Apr 10, 2009 @ 12:33 am | delete
    Great idea! The way your talking makes it sound like you know it is a fake and the fact that you know it's a fake is the proof that it is a fake? Oh well, I tried, LOL. 5* for each dollar your giving away, eventually:)
  • SquidooKimberly Apr 9, 2009 @ 9:08 pm | delete
    HA! Great traffic trick. ;) You never cease to amaze me.

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