[Starwind]

Note the brightness and clarity...

Now look at the loss of granularity of your generated image.

If Rush's photo is faked, it was faked by a different process.

[Starwind]

But ya know...now that I think about it...

What is misisng from both photo's is "surf". Real photo's almost always have a line of white surf at the ocean/land boundary...both of these lack that.

It might be fake.

[Cultural Jihad]

Well, if you look inside the shape of the city lights, it's clearly the same computer program generating both images. Anyone could then alter the raw export to increase its contrast and brightness, and email it to Rush. mikegi got it right on the money.