Comments on: Champ Photo Contest

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:23:30 +0000

1+3: Copycat Surgeon’s Photos, based on the assumption that all water monsters are the same.
2:Can I name the iguana Iggy(unimaginative, I know, but so are 1 and 2!)hmm… let me try that one: !)
lol

By: Zephyr

Zephyr — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:54:03 +0000

The second picture is obviously a fake, it is merely a lizard, photoshopped in a picture of water. Notice there are no circular water ripples, just wind ripplettes. The same is with the first picture, but with a water “trail” perhaps either photoshopped in or from a boat passing by.

The second one also looks like a fist or some poorly made fake that was just put in the water. It ight have also been photoshopped in, but this one does have the circular motion ripples.

The first two pictures are still very good fakes.

By: hobbyphotographer

hobbyphotographer — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:29:19 +0000

I completely agree with twblack! I think that this Photo Contest was a good idea to make fun.

To my opinion, the winning picture is not a digital montage or something fake like that, but it’s a got-up job - supposedly they made a dummy or a monster-looking puppet, and pushed it out of the water.

Anyway, congratulations, it’s a really good photograph - good idea, good realization, good composition!

By: Benjamin Radford

Benjamin Radford — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:39:42 +0000

Hah! I love it, most are just as good as the Champ photos I’ve studied!

By: twblack

twblack — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:05:59 +0000

Oh come on people, sometimes a good laugh never hurts. It was all in good natured fun.

By: quill

quill — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:39:54 +0000

Please tell me those are all joke entries. That third one made me giggle.

By: FreeThinker

FreeThinker — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:33:55 +0000

If you look closly, all the heads are diffrent. The first two seem to be photoshopped in. Even I would be able to take a lake, get a dinosaur piture, and put the picture in. The third seems to be a snorkle that the man had changed, threw in, and taken a picture of. Until I see something that looks detailed enough and has a correct proportion, I will still not belive any dinosaurs survived.

By: UberKyle

UberKyle — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:37:06 +0000

Hah, well, I suppose I can now second the identification of the second picture as a Ctenosaur. I’ve been an avid prowler of cryptomundo for some time, and decided I could finally post a relavant comment, so I registered, came back, and the indentification rights were taken right out from under me.

I’ll get the next one

By: Trapster

Trapster — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:23:08 +0000

The one that looks like a lizard is just that.. appears to be a Spiny Tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura similis). In real life they only get 5 feet long and maybe 15 LBS. Also they don’t care much for swimming.

Google it and see for yourself.
later- jeff

By: Senor Chubba

Senor Chubba — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:58:37 +0000

The snowboardin’ yeti takes the cake.

On a related note- I recently went to disneyworld and could not muster the courage to get on the yeti ride, although I was dying to see the”museum” of artifacts that were part of it. I did buy some fake yeti hand/gloves from the gift shop and will be ready now to hoax some “unseen yeti grabbing prey from behind tree” game cam pix.