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[khiemtran]

It's the weekend! Here, have a dolphin...

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[asakiyume]

You say "have a dolphin," but you neglect to mention that it's a dolphin in a patch of rose-colored water, when the sky is golden orange and the rest of the sea silvery blue gray. The colors. I wouldn't need to eat if I could see those colors each morning.

ETA...buuuut I'd probably eat anyway, because I enjoy it, heh.

[khiemtran]

Ah, there's a trick there. The morning sun is actually shining on the water just to the right of the photo and that rose-colored spot is a lens artifact of that. If I included the sun in the photo, the paddler and dolphin would both be too dark to see.

[asakiyume]

Huh! So when you were there, you saw dazzling brightness, and the paddler and dolphin near silhouetted?

[khiemtran]

With human eyes, I saw more pewter coloured water with a road of gold leading up to the sun. However, the camera saw a white gold river pointing to the sun with everything else in shadow.

[asakiyume]

So fascinating how we and our machines see differently.

[lethargic_man]

The human eye has hundreds of millions of years more optimisation for being able to handle broad ranges of light levels than the camera. Beautiful picture, though, regardless.

I'm glad khiemtran told us the figure was a paddler; I couldn't work out if he was surfboarding, walking his dog in the shallows, or walking on water.

[khiemtran]

Funnily enough, when I remember the photo, I remember the dolphin being right up next to the paddler, so when I look at the picture now, I'm surprised at how far apart they are. So, the image my brain captured is also quite different from reality...