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Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 01:05 AM

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Go to small dead animals and read this story concerning a photo of Stephen Harper that might have been altered.

Here's the picture that is used in the CBC story:

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Cute. Manages to line things up to have the crown right on top of Stephen Harper's head.

Now Kate suggests that there was some hanky-panky here because other photos of the event (like this one from TVA) show the background significantly higher:

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Kate makes a convincing argument that the photo might have been altered.

But there might be another explanation. The CBC story running the "crown picture" is dated 21-April-2006.

Now check out this CTV story from 8-November-2005:

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Same photographer, Aaron Harris. Same line-up of the shot to get the crown on Stephen Harper's head.

Coincidence? Or another explanation?

  1. One or both photos were altered to get the curious alignment
  2. The CBC story was recycling an older Harper photo, perhaps from the November 8 event, to achieve the desired effect. But then Stephen Harper's hair seems much lighter and the background less in focus. Of course, that doesn't prove anything in this Photoshop world.
  3. Aaron Harris just likes to take photos like that.
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