As recently as yesterday, the image above was at the National Geographic website as one of the winners of the International Photography Contest. It obviously is a manipulated image, because in a true "reflection" the angle of the clouds would change at the horizon. The photographer's comment was that the picture "shows the reflection of clouds."
This picture was posted at PhotoshopDisasters yesterday. Someone there emailed NG and received this reply: "Thank you for your email. This image was previously brought to our attention and we have asked the photographer to send us the original negative. The magazine will address the issue if the photographer can not prove that it was not manipulated."
Today the photo has been deleted from the National Geographic site. But I'm surprised that such a sophisticated organization could have been fooled by such an obviously scientifically inaccurate photo.
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