Sunday, February 26, 2012

An Urban legend Debunked

This beautiful work of art by Inga Nielsen is titled "Hideaway." Inga said she created it on her computer using a scenery generator.  But it has been circulating around the Internet as a photograph since 2006, and was even featured as NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day."  
You can read more about it on Hoax-Slayer.
It is a beautiful scene in any case. Nice job, Inga!

2 comments:

  1. That's the trouble with the Internet.. we all take it as gospel. We've all gotta guard ourselves against the hoaxes... and they aren't necessarily perpetrated by the originator. Recently I got cut off of Blogger for showing a cardinal quilt block that I made... a commentor writing in Spanish saw it elsewhere and accused me of plagerism... It took some doing to get Blogger to see that I had made the original and the picture. (I think she saw it on Pintrest and missunderstood how that works.) Anyway, I love the picture - it has a mood to it.
    Hugs!

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  2. I agree with Terri --- it's a lovely, other-worldly picture.

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