Worst Chinese government photograph ever

[somone]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/29/chinese-county-ridicule-doctored-photograph

For government officials in Huili, a distinctly modest county in a rural corner of south-west China, attracting national media coverage would normally seem a dream come true. Unfortunately, their moment in the spotlight was not so welcome: mass ridicule over what may well be one of the worst-doctored photographs in internet history.

The saga began on Monday when Huili's website published a picture showing, according to the accompanying story, three local officials inspecting a newly completed road construction project this month. The picture certainly portrayed the men, and the road, but the officials appeared to be levitating several inches above the tarmac. As photographic fakery goes it was astonishingly clumsy.

The outraged – or amused – calls began to the county's PR department, which immediately apologised and withdrew the image. The explanation was almost as curious as the picture itself: as other photos showed, the three men did visit the road in question, but an unnamed photographer decided his original pictures were not suitably impressive and decided to stitch two together.

"A government employee posted the edited picture out of error... The county government understands the wide attention, and hope to apologise for and clarify the matter," a Huili official told the state-run Xinhua news agency...


Huili local officials inspect, or indeed float above, a highway project in China's Sichuan province. Photograph: Huili County Government

[Kaleva]

1. Advanced Chinese technology...a maglev road.

[Mist]

2. It's dumb that the photographer apparently shopped his own pics. The other two

pics (in linked article) also look shopped, but the bottom one looks to be the most convincing.

http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/1139/huili-county-weibo-ps/

[Kaleva]

13. Look at the guy on the left in the first two pictures. Appears to be the exact same pose.

[Drale]

3. OMG THE CHINESE HAVE MASTERED MAGIC!!!

WE MUST INVADE NOW!!!!!!!!:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[arbusto_baboso]

4. They mastered it long ago. You haven't seen 'em fly from treetop to treetop?

I have. It was in a movie, man, so you know it's real.

[formercia]

12. We've already won

They're wearing jeans. American culture invades China.

[HopeHoops]

5. That road's on sale at WalMart.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. hee

[hifiguy]

7. Epic Photoshop FAIL

:rofl:

[Rex]

8. Must have taken all of 5 seconds. That is one of the worst PS

pics I ever did saw!!!

[bvar22]

9. I heard they can do that in Asia.

I always thought that levitation was a scam,
but now that I have seen photographic proof,
I have changed my mind.

"I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I wanna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for awhile

And I'm free, I'm free fallin'"---Kudos to Tom Petty

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. Hey, at least the men are right-side-up.

But I would have placed them at the top of the rise so they looked about 100 feet tall (this projects strength and power).

And they need to be holding light sabers.

[Stevenmarc]

11. They need a Facebook page where people can badly Photoshop them all over the world