Photo: Robert B. Haas
Just how awesome is this: National Geographic photographer Robert B. Haas captured this aerial photo of a flock of flamingo birds shaped like a giant flamingo!
Link to the larger pic – Thanks Marilyn!
Brad
Looks more like a bow-legged duck
SD
'Shopped
just a guy
I was gonna call 'duck' too!
also, rotate the pic before publishing it, you crazy 'national geographic' magazine, you!
Evil Pundit
Self-referential wildlife ftw!
ted
Should have a longer beak, eh?
Dianne
I LOVE THEM IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM!!
Shapado
Am I also supposed to believe that this is a rare breed of flamingo that has never had any contact with the outside world and lives like cavepeoples?
Craig
Wow, that seems at first to scream "Photoshop!", but I think it might actually be real.
Kathleen
That's pretty awesome. I've never seen a flamingo in its natural habitat, only in zoos, so just the volume of them is pretty neat to see.
anon
I don't think it's shopped, but I do think there is a kind of bias in perception. It doesn't look like a flamingo, it looks like a duck or goose.
Take a look at the 'beak' instead of being long and curved down, this one is short and curved up.
Also the body shape is squat and round with the 'legs' oriented toward the rear of the body.
Minnesotastan
Another way it could be 'shopped would be to selectively dredge/fill the lakebed to create depths appropriate to the shape you want them to form. Call it "geoshopping."
bekkie
If it was on anything but national geographic I'd say it was photoshopped.. but I'll go with luck and multiple shots...
marcusbacus
Luck... to have Photoshop available. It's not their first shopped image (there is one about pyramids that is known for a while).
Ali S.
If in truth it is shopped then shame on NG for that. They have always touted to have the best ethical ideals for photography in that nothing should be retouched. But if this is a real honest "hand on heart" picture than that's pretty neat.
Natalie w
if it was photoshopped,it would probably look more like a flamingo. but as it is, its really cool!
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