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Early morning Fed raid photo in Miami short, shaved on the sides - longer hair on the top.
Fake photo from who knows where or when produced by Comrade Craig - even long hair length all over Elian's head.
why shouldn't his hair be longer? He's been through a hair-raising experience. Has anybody shown us the teeth yet though?
I've been proclaming this fact throughout the day! The more who are aware, the better!
His hair has grown!
Around the world the media as stated that these are the images of Elian reuniting with his father after he was seized. It is clear that this treasonous government and the mainstream media is LYING to us.
BUMPEST! Deserves to be on top.
My whole take on the photo thing is that knowing how image-conscious our 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Ministry of Truth is, if Elian were playing happily with "Papa!" (as Slime puts it), wouldn't there be a constant stream of pictures, sound and video from the AFB?
Sometimes silence speaks volumes.
Isn't it amazing how this hair growth has occurred! Politicians with receding hairlines take heed of this astounding new remedy called Your Cheatin' Hair.
Could be the difference in lighting and the angle of the photos that make the boy's hair appear to have grown, don't you think?
AHA! I SPOTTED WHY THEY ARE FAKES!!!
If you look at the picture of ELIAN holding the baby, obviously he is younger, AND he is wearing a necklace. Yet, in the picture with his father, he is wearing the same pajama shirt but no necklace, and a year older (see the fuller face).
No doubt Al Gore will take credit (like the internet) and want full patent rights to whatever remarkable product we've discovered because of today's events.
I figured out how they did the pic in the middle. Don't look at Elian. That's not a fake. Its the pic of the Dad and his wife which was doctored. Juan Miguel's head was plopped onto someone else's body. If you look at the uncropped version of this pic, the wife and baby were just dropped in the pic. The perspective is wrong.
The original on which the middle pic is based must be already published. It would be before his recent haircut but well after his recovery. Im guessing Donato was holding Elian. The wife and her baby naturally would not be present in the original. Perhaps an Elan buff can come up with the original pic?
Look at the fingers of the little boy, those are big fingers.
Again look at Juan Miguel's neck just above the collar of the jacket. See the dark line pretending to be a shadow. That was placed to obscure the fact that the head was stuck on someone else's body. I swear I saw this view of Elian somewhere before. I know its been published.
I've been looking at the picture and it is a very good fake...but I think that if the father has a concentrated location of light on his face, then the boy should have it too...the distance differential of the faces would not have as big an effect. One big spot compared to a concentrated spot. Elian's face just looks " flat" like the light source was very diffuse, like the sun. I think that his picture may have been taken outside...
Notice the difference in suntan on Juan Migel(who has been indoors in DC for the past two weeks) and Elian(who has been in Miami playing outdoors)!
This is the uncropped version.
Who is Juan Miguel's wife looking at? Is she even part of this scene?Why does she seem further front? Her hand seems out of place. It is too far back for her to be that much in the foreground.
Well, we all know it was a hair raising experience for the little guy, but this is a bit much. What happened to that beautiful Florida tan?
The song is HERE.
Elian's face is overexposed while Juan Miguel's is at the correct exposure. Is this possible in an undoctored pic? And I still wonder how his wife got dropped in this scence.
What bothers me about this photo is the black area behind the step mother and baby. What is this black area?? You have multi colored drapes and shears over the window... but what is this large black, squared off black block behind the step mother and baby?
As for the lighting, I'm not sure. Elian is facing the camera head on, full face and maybe this accounts for why he is so illuminated and washed out. I think its likely that the step mother and baby section was added. Perhaps they are recent, but the pic of Elian and Juan could be from before Elian left Cuba.
Also, look at the baby's hand that is resting on the mother. There is too much black around this arm as it rests upon her. But, that may be because the black background of that black area is making it hard to define where the sleeve ends, but that odd black area is not right and does not fit the pic or the room. The black area cuts across the wall to the left of the multi colored drapes and cuts part way across the drapes, then stops. All visible edges are straight, even the drapes behind Elian's head do not hang straight so what is this straight edged black area, that's what I want to know. Something has definately been layered into the pic and it clearly doesn't belong there.
The other interesting aspect it the necklace.
Somewhere there has to be a list of everything Gore has invented. He's unbelievable!
I'm watching the repeat of The Edge with Paula Zahn... I like how they show only pics that support the undoctored side. I notice they didn't show the pic of Elian being carried from the house that clearly shows the super short hair above the ears and wrapping around the lower portion of his head. When placed side by side with this alledged 'reunion' pic, it is obvious that his hair is totally different in the two pics.
Look at Elian's teeth...they have a space between the two front teeth in the first picture and they look like baby teeth in the second one. There is a bottom tooth missing in the first picture. Also, look at his ears, they are a little larger in the first picture. Lies, they are lies! These are doctored pictures. I don't care how many "experts" say they aren't.
In this pic, I lightened it. Several times in fact. As I was making my previous post they happened to show this pic on tv. It was lighter and showed an arc on the upper right corner of the black area.
This black area with the mother and baby was added to the other pic. There is a box within a box, look in the small box, what this looks like to me, and I'm no expert mind you, but I have done some graphic manipulation (removed someone from a photo and you'd have a hard time finding where they had been, and that was with my very first attempt at doing such a thing, so what could an experienced person do??) At any rate what this small area looks like to me, is that someone was going to "fix" or manipulate this photo, and quit. It is a very tedious and time consuming thing to do and have it look right... but the arc or curve looks to be where someone may have been trying to convert the black area pixel by pixle to match the multi colored drapes and gave up... its the only thing that explains this odd blackened area... JMO
I think the teeth are explained by time difference... as there are other pics that show his teeth as having spaces. I think the 'perfect' teeth are old pics and as you say, likely to be hsi baby teeth...
These pictures of Elian's hair remind me of how Clinton's trial in the Senate went off the tracks because of the Danny Williams pictures. Trying to do a proper analysis on an image that has been mangled with JPEG compression is a dicey proposition.
Brother, this is the wrong way to go. We need to focus like a laser on the fact that the raid was unconstitutional.
very interesting. Something is up there, and so far we are asked to believe admitted, proven liars that have absolutely no regard for our law or constitution. And even after Kosovo and lewinski, apparantly 60 some percent are still buying wholesale. Disgusting.
Something else to notice is that everyone in the pic looks washed out in my lightened one EXCEPT for Juan. Why is that??
Someone posted this image and it was just too good to let go, without captioning it, or adding text of some kind...LOL
The person above your post mentioned the difficulty of comparing pics, I'd have to agree, and yeah the violations that occured are important. The difference in hair style and length are important too in proving that something is definately wrong with these pics, they don't add up.
Does this not look like a Cuban home? And what of the t-shirt he's wearing? Are those spanish words? Is that shirt to be found in Cuba? Is this a picture of Elian's going away party?
what is this large black, squared off black block behind the step mother and baby?
I think it's a dresser.
I haven't read the Sunday paper in years, but there used to be a part in the comics section, where they gave you a before and after picture, and you had to identify five things that were different in the two pictures.
I bet you were good at that.
I don't know about a Cuban home, the shirt says Batman...
I was looking at the image in my software that I use for pixel manipulation and there are some blue pixels in places that are not consistent with the surrounding area.
I think it's a dresser.
Nope, I don't think so. I have been looking at the image and that black area in particular close up. At 800%. There are large sections that have nothing but BLACK pixels. If it were a dresser you'd see various shades of black and dark grey inter mixed, not solid one color BLACK. You get this solid one color 'background', when you crop out an image and select a one color background to work with, sometimes loading this section into a special program to allow you to pick a color to make transparent. There are no lines, shadings or anything when viewed at 800% to indicate recesses for drawers, handles nothing! There is also an area of strange pixels in front of the mothers mouth/chin area. You can see them in the lightened version if you look real close. Weird.
I think it's a dresser.
Have you ever seen a pitch black dresser? Gosh durn this is really fascinating. I have an ugly feeling that this picture questioning will go away after a few days, the major media will forget it and only kooks and tinfoilhatwearers will persue it. What happened to reporters? Were they ALL bought out???
Well, I suppose there are acrylic black dressers but if that were the case you'd have some sort of sheen, gloss, or highlights appearing from the flash that is washing out Elian. Ok, I've been playing around with the image. Bear in mind that each time you save a pic it loses clarity and as I said above I'm no expert at this stuff, but here is what I came up with, granted i didn't finish the area by her pony tail, and I didn't clean up the curtain edge behind her, but I think you'd have to say that someone that really knew what they were doing could create a better and more clear pic than mine, but it does show what is possible.
Also, I want to mention that while doing this I noticed a couple of things, 1) while overlaying the mother and baby, I noticed and in this pic her hand which someone said looked funny, well, this might be why... in this image I think it looks funny because of so many saves as it looks better in my software program prior to this last save, however when doing it, I too got looks that didn't seem normal. 2) I thought the neck on Elian's shirt looked oddly shaped or too large but in trying to match the mother and baby into the pic I came up with the same type of odd neckline. May be nothing, but were my version more clear and finished, it would be a better fake since the big black square block is missing and replaced with the proper background. Any way, FWIW...
WOW! FASCINATING-You should send this off to ...uhhh...OOOPS I FORGOT the nationals know everything already...and the PSYOPS wouldn't allow this. Fabulous work though. One further question- Why would the new wifes hair rise above the "black dresser" in the "original?"
Why would the new wifes hair rise above the "black dresser" in the "original?"
I don't know what they call it when they do that but stop and look, or think about it.... when you look at the front covers of those tabloids or most any magazine nowadays, they have images super imposed over other images, like collages... ya know... that was one of the things that stood out to me, that her head was above the black block.
Okay Pan, what can ya do with this photo?
This one looks really fake to me. Look at the area right around his head, the background seems to go right into his head. Also, the shadow seems to be a perfect cut out of his body.
A photographer called in to Fox News about the photo you are asking about. He said that the shadow is all wrong. Due to the way the light reflects off the subjects the person taking the photo is above them, and that the shadow should be going down, NOT up .... when asked about multiple flashes going off and maybe causing an odd shadow, the guy said no way, as then the eyes would reflect multiple lights and they don't. The shadow cast is all wrong....
Yes, the photographer is abviously to Elian's left and standing above him, which should put the shadow to the right and down. Yet the shadow is on his left side and very thick. Very strange lighting they used for this photo.
bump
They have now cropped the photo to show only the father and Elian...I still think the hair is longer inthe "newer" picture and the tans are not indicative of the climate they have been in for the last 2 week...
I think we must face the fact that this is ALL about appeasement of Castro so he won't f*** Clinton with a boat lift...so it is about Clinton's ego. How filthy.
They were taken by a little instant camera dealie.
Oh, and a communist pressed the little red button.
The video still image was taken in the dark with very powerful video lighting striking the boys head at an angle that will show flesh underneath. The inside picture was taken with flash from directly in front which would not show through the hair.
Get a life people!
Get a brain, Jackson, and new eyeglasses!
The hair above the ears would still show as being shorter than what they are trying to pawn off on the public.
I have a life. It's making sure you can't sleep with both eyes closed.
That really is a very strange picture.
Is it just the way the baby's fingers are curled, or does he have two left hands?
How old is the step-mother's other child that is still being held in Cuba? Could these pics be of the other child with Elian's head pasted on? Does anyone have photos of the other child to compare size and age?
They have now cropped the photo to show only the father and Elian...I still think the hair is longer inthe "newer" picture and the tans are not indicative of the climate they have been in for the last 2 week...
I think we know why they cropped that photo! LOL Because they didn't take their time and alter it enough!!
If you look at the news clips showing Elian in the stretcher being put in the ambulance after being rescued from the sea, His hair cut looks identicle to that of the so called reunion photo with his father..
I noticed the same thing when they aired that clip a few minutes ago...
Shouldn't CNN (Castro News Network), FOXNews and MSNBC be doing hours of coverage on his hair growth this is important the citizens are being deny this info. LOL
New family pictures are coming out this hour on Fox...
The light source for the photo is below and to the left of the camera's view. Look at the shadow around his ear in particular. If there were mulitple flashes at the same time, there would be multiple shadows for each flash position and the photo would be overexposed. There is no way a disposable camera made that photo. The flash source is far below the camera's view and to the left. If one turned the camera upside down to put the flash on the bottom, the shadow would go to the left because the flash would be on the right bottom side of the camera. Not to mention the flash is not nearly far enough down to produce that shadow. The photo is a lie.
I agree, there were no multiple flashes, and the shadows are all wrong.
I wish Drudge or someone else here would post just that photo and why it couldn't be made the way it was claimed. It isn't subjective, it is simple physics. With just that single lie bought forward for all to see would greatly undermine the White House and crew.
That and the one I exposed. Now they show a cropped version of the one I explain as being doctored. I have been debating on gathering up the images from that thread, plus my comments and sending them off to Drudge or Hannity.
It's so frustrating to see the people in the media dance around the images and not address the REAL questions
Yes it is...
I sent the photo and the shadow issue to drudge yesterday (or very early this morning). I'm sure he gets so much Email that there is no way he has seen it or is even likely to anytime soon...
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