Scanning around, I often see lots of stuff attached to articles and news, and also within videos (where they flash images as they narrate, monologue, or use someone else's voice over.)
I can complain about how this production techniques is abused, but it would be to no avail. So I just grin and bear it.
But this time, since it was a fluff-piece about astronomic stuff (the Leonid Meteor Shower) I was expecting photos of past events, etc.
From Fox: Lyrid meteor shower 2024: When and where to look up
Within it, this image appeared...
![[Image: GettyImages-1393058175-copy.jpg]](https://images.foxweather.com/static.foxweather.com/www.foxweather.com/content/uploads/2023/04/668/376/GettyImages-1393058175-copy.jpg)
With the following caption:
The annual April Lyrids meteor showers illuminate the night sky over the Jinshanling Great Wall on April 22, 2022 in Luanping County, Chengdu City, Hebei Province of China.
(Zhou Wanping / VCG / Getty Images)
Now here's my question... Is this really a photograph of a meteor shower? It seems awfully consistent... not like anything I have ever seen. I suspected that this as an overlay of the Great Wall's silhouette over a time-lapsed photo of stationary lights... or am I mistaken?
If it is an error, I wonder if they will correct it eventually (not that they spotted it); or if it isn't, how is such a photo possible?
Just something to ponder.
I can complain about how this production techniques is abused, but it would be to no avail. So I just grin and bear it.
But this time, since it was a fluff-piece about astronomic stuff (the Leonid Meteor Shower) I was expecting photos of past events, etc.
From Fox: Lyrid meteor shower 2024: When and where to look up
Within it, this image appeared...
With the following caption:
The annual April Lyrids meteor showers illuminate the night sky over the Jinshanling Great Wall on April 22, 2022 in Luanping County, Chengdu City, Hebei Province of China.
(Zhou Wanping / VCG / Getty Images)
Now here's my question... Is this really a photograph of a meteor shower? It seems awfully consistent... not like anything I have ever seen. I suspected that this as an overlay of the Great Wall's silhouette over a time-lapsed photo of stationary lights... or am I mistaken?
If it is an error, I wonder if they will correct it eventually (not that they spotted it); or if it isn't, how is such a photo possible?
Just something to ponder.
