Take a photo of amazing stuff:
Lenticular cloud over Mt. Fuji, 2003 (?)
Then mess it up with PhotoShop:
Photoshopped version of a 2003 photo of Mt. Fuji
Why? It’s the old question of why do we need fairies in the garden — isn’t the garden itself enough?
Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy called attention to other fantastic lenticular clouds near Mt. Fuji — are those fantastic formations not enough?
Did the PhotoShopper add anything of value to the picture? Of what use is a gilded lily?
(Please help — the original photo is identified as an award winner in 2003 — do you know the original photographer? We should give credit appropriately; I’ve not found the person’s name, yet.)
More:
- Mount Fuji (vivalavisa1.wordpress.com)
- PhotoShop Disasters
- Altocumulus clouds near Albuquerque, New Mexico, “Albuquerque’s Winter Cloud,” from NOAA’s Albuquerque office
- Real lenticulars over Mt. Ranier, Washington (something about volcanoes?), from KOMO News (viewing these, you’ll understand why I prefer the real ones)
- Series of lenticular cloud shots, from Living Moon (each natural shot better than the Fuji PhotoShop)
- Discussion of clouds over Mt. Shasta, California (yes, another volcano), at Siskayous.edu (great wave clouds, and a spectacular rainbow by Jane English)
- 20 most incredible lenticular cloud photos, from Environmental Grafitti
Final slide to Phil’s presentation at the JREF’s TAM6 The Amazing Meeting convention. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
[…] Lenticular clouds don’t resemble the fluffy cumulus clouds of cartoons, and so are held suspect by hoax lovers, especially those enthralled by “chemtrails” hoaxes, who argue that clouds are sinister creations of mad scientists and government cabals. Because this short piece shows some of the actions of winds, I love it more. […]
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Here is what multiple lenticulars stacked up look like in reality, when nature does it without PhotoShop.
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This pic is circulating again on FB – but this time, it has TWELVE layers of clouds, and again is claimed to be Taranaki, not Fuji…
[Link to Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/TongariroAlpineCrossingTours/posts/907359519286300 ]
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But look at this actual photo of a lenticular cloud stack over Mt. Ranier in Washington — note how no two layers are exactly alike, as in the PhotoShop Fuji version:
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On April 21, 2015, who is sending you all to look at this post?
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I’m quite certain it’s Fuji:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fuji
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A friend tells me it’s *not* Mt Fuji, but Mt Taranaki, in New Zealand. I believe him :-)
http://www.mttaranakiguidedtours.co.nz/the-pouakai-crossing
The Mark J Madigan page also claims it’s West Spanish Peak, Colorado, but once again, there’s no ocean near there. Not a credible claim.
So whose photo is it, really?
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Yes, you are right, it’s Mt. Fuji. Look at this pic http://onehundredmountains.blogspot.mx/2011/05/meizan-from-outer-space.html
The first pic is real by unknown author but the second one is a fake (photoshopped).
This beautiful pic is real http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/lenticular-clouds-agr1n8-sw.jpg
Thanks!
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No, that’s not Mt. Ararat. It’s definitely Mt. Fuji. There’s no ocean near Ararat.
They are both extinct volcanoes, but the photo in my post is definitely Fuji.
See Ararat here:
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Perhaps
Anna Molly Madison, Mt. Ararat http://sonsothunder.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/sons-of-enoch-14-the-land-of-nod/
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Thanks, Laura!
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Maybe
Photo taken by Mark J. Madigan – Walsenburg, Colorado – May 20, 2003 http://www.crystalinks.com/lenticular.html
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Maybe: Photo taken by Mark J. Madigan – Walsenburg, Colorado – May 20, 2003 http://www.crystalinks.com/lenticular.html
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Good to know — when I went searching for the original, it took considerably longer than 30 seconds. If you found it faster, perhaps this post is having some of its intended effect.
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I saw the doctored picture shared on Facebook and thought it looked a little too amazing. Thirty seconds of Google images yielded the original pic above and then, bored as I was, I decided to see if anyone else caught this and was as annoyed as I was. Why lie about something you don’t have to? Ironically the Faceboook account that had posted it originally was called “Truth Beckons.”
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