At the photographer's website he says, "Most of my work, through aesthetic or technical reason, has been highly processed or combined with other images - but only to give a representation of what a person could experience if they were there at the time, not to create a record of an unimaginable vista."
After trying to place this scene with Google Maps, and noticing what I thought were some funky perspective issues, I noticed this:
So, not to make any specific accusations, all bets are off.