Hi there! This is Melanie and these are my curated bits and pieces from the interwebs. I also occasionally link to my own websites - Italofile and Miss Adventures - and my writing on Gadling and About.com. Cheers!
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Reminder, all: Fact-check your finds when it comes to amazing photos from Irene and elsewhere. A few weeks ago, a Baltimore-based meteorologist named Justin Berk posted this amazing photo from a Pensacola storm. Tonight, it’s making the rounds thanks to Lansing-based TV station WILX — except this time, it’s being claimed that the photo was taken over the Outer Banks, just before Irene hit. The photo seems just a little too perfect to be believable for a storm of that size, so it’s drawing questions. (They’ve since taken the photo down.) This, friends, is why you double-check these things. The thing that set off alarm bells for us? The fact that a TV station in Lansing, Michigan, broke this photo. Because, clearly, they would’ve gotten it first.
Interesting…but how do you track photos back to their original source? What’s the easiest way?
beach….I was there! Shit was SCARYl
this is definitely pensacola beach. i used to live there. it was probably taken from the hilton or spring hill suites on...
Whoa, I fell for it too. Hard to check facts when it’s a picture, though… :/
…not to mention hurricane clouds don’t look like that
Same thing happens with the 2004 Tsunami
One way is to set standard for “save to web” compression and keep some meta-data with the photo (time photo was taken,...
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