What’s This?

Bird_dog

It’s a bird dog, of course!

It’s also one of the entries into a Worth1000.com context. Worth1000 is a site that runs contests for people who are proficient with Photoshop. I’ve run some posts on them before, but just recently a reader kindly sent me a link to some amazing pictures from a contest involving photoshopped hybrid animals like the one above. (CHT!)

Some of the pix are quite striking, so . . .

CHECK ‘EM OUT.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

30 thoughts on “What’s This?”

  1. Added humor value: The contest page is called “When cloning goes wrong,” and, while these images do look like cases of genetic engineering gone awry, it also alludes to the Photoshop tool probably most essential to creating such effects, the “clone” tool. Clever!

  9. I forwarded that link to Cryptomundo, so’s they could have some fun with it.
    Another Maine Mutant!

  11. Sadly this also shows how good fake can be. Meaning you really can’t trust photos in the paper or magazines anymore in that who’s to say it hasn’t been Shopped.

  12. Actually, I don’t think the photo is that good a fake. Not that I could do better or anything, but you can see right where the bird ends and the dog (or wolf?) begins. By the ear the bird is lighter and the canine darker, everywhere else the canine is difinitely lighter in color and the texture is different. For the most part the sharp dividing line can be seen.

  13. Umm people, I don’t know how to say this, but that photo is not a fake. We have those things in our yard. They’re pretty nasty to kids. I hope this guy was using a telephoto lens.

  14. By the ear the bird is lighter and the canine darker, everywhere else the canine is difinitely lighter in color

    Actually, precisely the same variations would probably apply to the original photo of the canine alone, due to the effects of light and shading. I know something about this sort of work — I may go ahead and do one of my own, just for fun — and this is a very fine example.

  17. Actually, precisely the same variations would probably apply to the original photo of the canine alone, due to the effects of light and shading.
    That may be true to a point, but look especially at the blue area between the dark spot behind the ear and the whiteish underside. The transition from bird to canine there is way too unnatural to blame on lighting.

  29. Makes a good pet. It can even chase theives, provided it’s not in a birdcage. 😀

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