Comments on: Real or Fake: The House Between Two Rocks

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By: Jennifer Chait

Jennifer Chait — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:41:00 +0000

I don’t know; as a final semi-word I’m going with real.

Because I’d like to believe it. Thanks Katelyn for the thoughts and stopping by — sorry I missed your comment before.

By: katelyn

katelyn — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:13:15 +0000

Personally I believe it is totally FAKE!!!! if you notice in the first picture above it doesn’t have a brick wall around but the second one does!!! oh and the pictue that Jullie posted above still looks as if it was a simple picture of rocks and someone digitally placed that house in between!!! But I must commend whoever did the brilliant artwork of digitally placing the house into the picture beacause it obveouslly has many people puzzled, I’m even still sceptical about my opinion but I will still back it up all the way!!

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:03:25 +0000

Detective Julie. Hm. Should that be a new novel? Thanks for the compliment.:-)

I’m just glad it’s not the ‘Poop House Between The Rocks.’

By: Jennifer Chait

Jennifer Chait — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:45:54 +0000

Thanks for playing detective Julie! I still think it looks fake. But so many people can’t be fibbing I suppose. Plus I do trust your photo knowledge.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:14:05 +0000

I stand corrected, found more references and a photo that isn’t as perfectly ‘cut’ as the original. When you do graphics you come to expect that the very crisp things are faked. Sigh, oh sigh, whatever happened to my trust.

Here’s a link to another photo where you can see it’s real.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/23917/plougrescan_s_.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/France/West/Bretagne/Plougrescant/&h=100&w=150&sz=6&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=Nz7rGb7TMq1RWM:&tbnh=64&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMaison%2Bde%2BPlougrescan%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

By: Jennifer Chait

Jennifer Chait — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:52:55 +0000

I don’t know. You are the graphics girl but everyone says it’s real. I’ll have to do some digging. You do bring up an excellent moss point. I missed that — good old me noticing everything.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:11:18 +0000

It’s fake. The top picture has moss that is too green on the rocks, with the reflection being of the whole structure, while the house is too far from the shore to reflect. If you notice the bottom pic, there is no moss/vines.

Reflections aren’t as hard to make as it might seem. It’s just a matter of layering and using the proper brushes to smudge. Pretty, but totally unreal. Makes me sad, I’d like to live there.

By: Jennifer Chait

Jennifer Chait — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:42:11 +0000

Heather my fish helper! If it’s fake then yes the reflections are good. I’m no photo wiz though. It takes little to fool me about pictures. Bridget, you are too funny. If you’re this funny all the time I should be visiting your blog more often. Note to self — visit biz chicks.

By: Bridget Wright

Bridget Wright — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:18:07 +0000

It SOOO looks fake! Like something out of a Dr. Suess’ fairytale.

“I do not like big rocks and grok. I do not like them on a house, I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like big rocks and grok. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”