Squirrel Stole the Shot in Couple’s Holiday Photo
While hiking at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park in Alberta, Twin Cities couple Melissa Brandts and her husband, Jackson, set their camera to a timer and posed for a holiday photo when a wide-eyed ground squirrel popped into the frame and stole the shot.
The camera’s focus locked onto the squirrel and the blurred-out couple seemed to have just become part of the background.
“We were laughing about this little guy for days,” Brandts wrote to National Geographic as they’ve submitted the squirrel photo to the magazine. It was posted in the “Your Shot – Daily Dozen” (August – Week 1, image # 9) gallery of readers’ pictures.
Since then, newspapers around the world have written about the photo and the camera-hogging squirrel had also become an internet sensation that a practice dubbed “squirrel bombing” is fast spreading all over the net.
Here’s another set of squirrel bombing..
Are u sure that wasnt photoshopped…? That squirrel was so into the picture taking momment. He looks like he is starring right at the camera. Maybe the camera guy got acorn on his hands?
Naw…any image that has been altered has certain characteristics on the edge if it was pasted in ala ANY PHOTOSPHOP type program. It can be detected when you compare the pixels around the edge of the pasted in item with the item being pasted into. As for the squirrel – it was captivated for a moment because of the shutter noise and perhaps thought it was a call for food but then decided it didn’t or so I have read. No matter what..National Geographic had their experts on it to VERIFY it was NOT two images clumped into one. many people think that its so easy to fool others when you do these things but into the world of pro imagery…it aint going to happen. Newspapers and other agencies have been dupped with this kind of BS so they care very carefully to endorse it only after carefull authentication of the image. AND thats the news from one who knows..