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National Geographic - One Of The Best Picture Of The Year

cs.helsinki.fi — Look very closely, the animals are in white. The black you see are their shadows!

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  • savethemooses, on 12/12/2007, -17/+290Well, it's from 2005. But it totally blew my mind. Digg'd.
    • bitt3n, on 12/12/2007, -11/+42it's just a bunch of black camels on magic carpets. I see that stuff every day.

      man I think I need a new source for my weed
    • mal1964, on 12/12/2007, -5/+7Some photos are timeless.
    • scrolltom, on 12/12/2007, -4/+35Dugg?
    • clarionhaze, on 12/12/2007, -1/+23but why the explanation... anyone who looks at that picture and isn't distracted by text immediately notices the effect.
      • mrgono3, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3yeah and comic sans is like the most overused font ever!
        • DarkSamus, on 12/13/2007, -1/+2you font nazis better chill the ***** out before i start using brush script up in here
          • thorak, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1
            I think Nazis invokers should check out Godwin's law.

        • sgtbutterscotch, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1No Times New Roman is way overused.
    • voidofmind, on 12/12/2007, -0/+58http://www.nationalgeographic.com.tr/ngm/0502/masa ...

      full size images, sans ***** white text all over it...
      • superkendall, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2I really doubt that is full size, but nice to see it without the text...
      • bassman626, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome, thanks. I think the dugg picture didn't need the explantion
    • Habemus, on 12/12/2007, -3/+3>"But it totally blew my mind."

      Then your mind is too easily "blowable."
    • tjordan83, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2And all this time I really thought camels were black...
    • SLockhart, on 12/13/2007, -0/+0Why did it blow yor mind? Never seen a shadow before?
  • monsterenergy, on 12/12/2007, -17/+7Woah...trippy
  • pennyfan87, on 12/12/2007, -25/+3^s
  • RobotGigante, on 12/12/2007, -26/+186For some reason I got the sudden urge to smoke
  • KenSPT, on 12/12/2007, -19/+8You have died of dysentery ...
    • mydigga, on 12/12/2007, -2/+5If it were buffalo in the picture, that would have worked.
    • Wolfkin, on 12/12/2007, -5/+2No it still worked
      • johnny222, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4No, there weren't any freakin' camels in Oregon Trail.
  • saltshaker2323, on 12/12/2007, -10/+584ew, comic sans.
  • frostbyt, on 12/12/2007, -26/+3The Best Picture Of The Year? I am not impressed. I feel like smoking now.
  • matthewdestroys, on 12/12/2007, -16/+88a whole lot of camel toe.
  • TheCooler72, on 12/12/2007, -10/+42Yet another brilliant use of Comic Sans.
  • RocketSeason, on 12/12/2007, -5/+701A great way to ruin a fantastic photo: Add a long paragraph slapped on top of it stating the obvious. Double points if its in comic sans.
    • Yuo122986, on 12/12/2007, -0/+41and the red is sand and rock, look closely, you may realize it is below the camel
      • peagle, on 12/12/2007, -1/+31This is a photograph, use your eyes to view it. Moving your eyeballs around will enable you to view different parts of the image.
        • smackhero, on 12/12/2007, -2/+12to view the photo, just capture the photons bouncing off of your computer monitor and translate them into a mental image. face the direction of the monitor.
        • DemonWasp, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1@smackhero: Actually that sounds really really difficult to figure out from scratch.
        • enginbeering, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Eh, I'm pretty sure the photons are being _emitted_ from the computer monitor, not bouncing off. Here's a good way of figuring out which is the case: can you see it in the dark? ;-)
    • cjays1, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4I was thinking that myself. It's a great photo, but just show it to us without a freekin' explanation.
    • rakstar, on 12/12/2007, -6/+1triple points if it's in pretzel font!
      http://www.pretzelfont.com/
    • joep0, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, it'd be a cool background w/o the text, anyone have a link to one?
    • mrjit, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Quad points if you double up the exclamation points !!
    • W0Kandinsky, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6The stuff that you don't see is air.
    • stillasleep00, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1At least it wasn't Papyrus....
    • svivian, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1And double again if it looks like it was copied from an email, with the odd line breaks there.
  • Kmack928, on 12/12/2007, -17/+5At first I thought
    "Who is this John Madden wanna-be drawing all over my camels"
    and then I realized I wouldn't have noticed that for like 5 more minutes if it wasn't written : /

  • sajnikanth, on 12/12/2007, -2/+25*One of the best pictures
    • joot2112, on 12/12/2007, -3/+4* The black you see is their shadows
  • edgeofreason, on 12/12/2007, -9/+8I spy a camel with three legs...
  • BoneStamp, on 12/12/2007, -3/+8I think this is the third time I've seen this on Digg. Still dugg, awesome photo.
    • KSUdesigner, on 12/12/2007, -2/+14You can't really complain about it being on digg three times if you digg it every time.
      • GasPoweredGnome, on 12/12/2007, -4/+3From his tone, how can you tell that he's complaining? Looks like hes just stating a fact to me.
    • pdbailey, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1the photo is much cooler if you figure out for yourself what is going on... buried.
  • Mark7r0n, on 12/12/2007, -3/+236Thanks for the Comic Sans explanation of that, you completely defaced a beautiful picture.
    • smackhero, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4yea, why not just save us the hassle of actually looking at the picture and just describe it with a paragraph of text next time.
    • FredFredrickson, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2And be sure to use one of the most over-used fonts as possible, split up the sentences in illogical spots, and cover an even larger area next time.
  • LoudMusic, on 12/12/2007, -4/+28Thank you for writing all over the picture. It really improved the experience for me ...

  • Gudlyf, on 12/12/2007, -3/+91Buried because of the unnecessary white OMG-like comments on the picture, as if the person had a brainstorm and noticed something anyone with half a brain would.

    Then again, Snopes had to dedicate a page to this so people knew it was a true image: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/camelshadows. ...
    • yumlum, on 12/12/2007, -13/+2this link is spam
      • gopanthers, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6No it's not! It's about the photograph.
    • smackhero, on 12/12/2007, -6/+1that is quite sad. i used to like snopes, but the quality of their content has dropped significantly over the years.
    • diggdowner, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks a bunch for the link to the non-pissed on version of the pic! I didn't even have to rename to overwrite.
  • evan119, on 12/12/2007, -16/+509 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0...
  • ajayzav, on 12/12/2007, -2/+4Anyone got this picture without all the writing on it?
  • ceris, on 12/12/2007, -1/+10Just FYI: You are able to search thru digg to make sure something hasn't been posted a few times before.
    • lhbaker, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Search for this: Digg search sucks
      • snarkleclackers, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1I did it. The search sucks so bad that the only relevant result I got was a page that no longer exists...
  • mal1964, on 12/12/2007, -1/+25http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/index.php?section=8 ...

    The photographer is George Steinmetz
    • diggSJaustin, on 12/12/2007, -2/+2Oh, quit cogitating, Steinmetz, and use an open-faced club. The sand wedge!
      • mal1964, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1How do you think he developed that picture perfect swing?
  • vfx2k4, on 12/12/2007, -11/+2Buried for bad grammar. One of the best "pictures" of the year.
    • simpleid, on 12/12/2007, -2/+1i can't wait for the best invention of mankind to arrive, and amazing super quantum computer with a built in microwave, then because there's a type-o, you deem it useless. you fool.
    • mal1964, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks!, that makes my job counting the buried stories so much easier when you tell me
  • tpearl, on 12/12/2007, -9/+1Wow! Pictures of shadows.
  • rohit12, on 12/12/2007, -6/+0great pic just blew up my mind
  • vfx2k4, on 12/12/2007, -12/+2Buried for poor grammar. One of the best "pictures" of the year.
  • woonie, on 12/12/2007, -5/+1I didn't realize that those were shadows until i read those comic-al commentary. 2 years oh no. =(
    Anyway, (not original) image without the explanation here: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/Lordano/za%2 ...
  • AnonymousSkull, on 12/12/2007, -3/+1One hell of a shot, my fiance will love to see this one. Too bad it's ruined by that silly caption.
  • deeboe, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1How is the one of the best photos of the year from 2 years ago?
    • snurfle, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1One of the best photos of "the" year, not "this" year.
      Or maybe the OP didn't catch the date!
  • Romanito, on 12/12/2007, -3/+135Higher resolution for your viewing pleasure: http://i6.tinypic.com/73a9hxf.jpg
    • ch0240, on 12/12/2007, -0/+16yeah, this is much better without that stupid annoying white note in it
    • explodingtree, on 12/12/2007, -0/+10Fell for it. Hence why I get Rickrolled about 4 times a day.
    • TerrorByteX, on 12/12/2007, -3/+2I didn't get tricked into seeing the same picture with poorly written large red text and an arrow pointing to one of the 'shadoz' of the camels.
  • GothAlice, on 12/12/2007, -7/+26Direct link without the Comic Sans:
    http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/animals/graphic ...
  • milarepa, on 12/12/2007, -2/+1Sean Carter's family reunion.
  • irishjays, on 12/12/2007, -2/+1SMOKE!
  • biggiec, on 12/12/2007, -1/+601024 x 768 version (sans comic sans)
    Photograph by George Steinmetz taken in 2005

    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0502/images/ ...

  • MikeonTV, on 12/12/2007, -0/+14The imageshack frog is the picture of the year?
  • RichGC, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Want to bury it for it linking to a crappy quality image and the use of bad grammar, but dugg because the comments link to the high quality version, and I think its a great photo :)
  • eh270, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Why does this link to a marked-up JPEG rather than the Natl Geographic page?
  • ego_slam, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2Yes YES! The BEST picture of the year! ....2 years ago.
  • lordmetroid, on 12/12/2007, -4/+1It is a downer of a picture. I give it a -10!
  • Lust4Me, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Worldpress photos of the year:

    http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=co ...
  • proseandpromise, on 12/12/2007, -2/+1It's like stumbling in to Plato's cave.
  • Goobernutz, on 12/12/2007, -0/+41Those are actually rare shadow camels of the turkish desert. They get around by riding on the backs of tiny albino crocodiles.
    • Arcesius, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4Whoa.... *pupils dilate*
    • michael43, on 12/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg just for having the "goobernutz" to use that nick.
  • beerncheese, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1buried because the photo is ruined
  • m0nk3y80y88, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Thank you for assuming we are all stupid and explaining this oh so very complicated picture to us.
  • zubi, on 12/12/2007, -6/+1Buried for being from 2005.

    Come on guys.
    • jerrylin, on 12/12/2007, -1/+4Buried for caring about the year, not the quality of content.

      Come on guy.
  • thewebguy, on 12/12/2007, -0/+7can we see it sans Comic Sans?
  • taketheleap, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5buried for being on the Digg front page for the 5th time...
  • LooterMcBeer, on 12/12/2007, -2/+1Good picture although anytime someone says "It is considered to be" you know they made the ***** up and they are 99% of the time an amateur writer that just wanted to spread something on the internet.
  • Simonft, on 12/12/2007, -0/+14No writing, hight quality
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com.tr/ngm/0502/masa ...
    • lbmouse, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6Thank you... the original would have been a good picture if some ***** hadn't put text all over it.
    • Hoogs, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Finally.....thank you sir.
  • Monti0, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Gee, thank you for commenting on the picture explaining to me what I'm seeing. I would have thought it's that newfangled flat silhouette camel breed.
  • britblogger, on 12/12/2007, -2/+2buried - old picture, and the unneccesary explanation.

    I have eyes, I can figure it out just fine thanks.
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