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Originally posted by shakran
Laugh all you want guys, without feeling guilty. It's DEFINITELY chopped. First off, note the car in pics 2 and 3. It's moved. That means the engine is running. How many ducks do you know that will keep calmly walking near a running car that's moving? They ALWAYS walk away from the car.
Second, look at the adult's feet in pic2. They did a nice job, but you can see that the feet don't belong there. That telltale blurring around the toes when everything else is sharp gives it away.
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Ducks and geese walk with no regard to cars all the time-ever drive through a park full of them? I do and they look at the cars like we've ransacked their home, but they keep walking. Blurring happens when things move, like duck feet or the cameraman.
I tried to find it in Snopes, but no luck there-however, there have been some duck-from-the sewergrate pictures posted elsewhere, so in all probability this is pretty accurate. Like Hal, I knows my Photoshop and that isn't a paste-up;-the shadows can't be that well blended into the pavement no matter how hard one tries-paste-ups are very hard to do when done well and there would still be errors-those things you've pointed out are not errors.(To be sure, though, magnify the picture by hitting control + about 6 or seven times and look for obvious outlines.)
It's the mother duck looking back, like WTF? that made me giggle.