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Well composed and scary photo. This photographer is amazing (Original Post) irisblue Jul 2020 OP
That's photoshopped. lunatica Jul 2020 #1
I think the idea is how good the effects work is in terms of making a cool-looking picture (nt) mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #2
It is a very cool picture lunatica Jul 2020 #8
Go look at the photographers twitter time line, I don't think so irisblue Jul 2020 #3
not photoshopped--"composed" cyclonefence Jul 2020 #5
jeez..I would think a photo-journalist... stillcool Jul 2020 #7
He's a photojournalist on assignment for The New York Times . . . Journeyman Jul 2020 #10
Looks like he's ready for nap time SledDriver Jul 2020 #4
(Rose)Mary's Baby. Totally Tunsie Jul 2020 #6
The photographers Instagram acct has some well done images as well irisblue Jul 2020 #9
But do you see horns or a halo? Brainfodder Jul 2020 #11
I see horns irisblue Jul 2020 #13
Unfinished halo. He's not perfect, you know.* Nevilledog Jul 2020 #14
you're worrying me Dude. irisblue Jul 2020 #16
This is how I imagine Nehemiah Scudder looked. Another Jackalope Jul 2020 #12
What a freak show! smirkymonkey Jul 2020 #15
That Saudi orb is on his head get the red out Jul 2020 #17
Is that the Saudi Orb above his head.... bottomofthehill Jul 2020 #18

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
7. jeez..I would think a photo-journalist...
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:14 PM
Jul 2020

would say something, if he had altered an image. I guess they get away with it?

Journeyman

(15,024 posts)
10. He's a photojournalist on assignment for The New York Times . . .
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:20 PM
Jul 2020

it's not photoshopped. If it were, he'd have it clearly labeled as such. He's not going to jeopardize his career for something so trivial.

Another Jackalope

(112 posts)
12. This is how I imagine Nehemiah Scudder looked.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:24 PM
Jul 2020

Scudder was a dictatorial character in Robert Heinlein's Future History series, written in the 50s and 60s. This photo brought to mind an unwritten story in the series, called "The Sound of His Wings."

Heinlein gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize—a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long. His rise to power began when one of his flock, the widow of a wealthy man who would have disapproved of Scudder, died and left him enough money to establish a television station. He then teamed up with an ex-Senator and hired a major advertising agency. He was soon famous even off-world—many bonded laborers on Venus saw him as a messianic figure. He had muscle as well—a re-creation of the Ku Klux Klan in everything but name. "Blood at the polls and blood in the streets, but Scudder won the election. The next election was never held." Though this period was integral to the human diaspora that would follow several hundred years later, Heinlein stated that he was never able to write them because they featured Scudder prominently; he "dislike(d) him too much".

Uncomfortably close to real life...
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
15. What a freak show!
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:27 PM
Jul 2020

I see horns. I knew it! I knew he was the Anti-Christ! That's why he hasn't died of Covid yet.

get the red out

(13,460 posts)
17. That Saudi orb is on his head
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:40 PM
Jul 2020

I wonder if that means Jared just cashed a check to help with those loans he can't pay?

Seriously, the picture is simple and brilliant both.

bottomofthehill

(8,318 posts)
18. Is that the Saudi Orb above his head....
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jul 2020

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