The Squirrelizer
National Geographic taps curious squirrel for glossy treatment
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The world's most famous squirrel is National Geographic's choice for a prominent photo position in an upcoming issue of the famed magazine, according to the Minnesota husband and wife who stumbled into global Internet fame with the self-portrait vacation snapshot.
Melissa Brandts, who along with her husband, Jackson, snapped a spontaneous photo of a squirrel ambling in front of their lens in Banff National Park in Canada, says the picture is the editor's pick for publication in the November issue.
During August, the photo was among the magazine's online "Your Shot" offerings, which allowed visitors to rate the submitted photos. All through the month, the Watertown couple's squirrel picture was the clear favorite.
Not only did the photo become an instant favorite among visitors to the magazine's website, but it also held for a time the No. 1 search response spot on Google for "squirrel" and has been given viral cut-and-paste treatment into various other photo scenes thanks to a website set up just for the camera-curious creature
Comment: Try this for fun THE SQUIRRELIZER - Adds that ground squirrel to any image (Comment ... before you check out random SQUIRRELIZERS read the caution!)
Image source above. I don't believe it is copyrighted but: The original photo provided by Jackson and Melissa Brandts
There's an iPhone app for that.
ReplyDeleteLooks very faked. The squirrel looks very stiff, probably stuffed, and not alive. How come we can't see the feet of the squirrel? Are they mounted on a wooden board to keep the fella standing?
ReplyDeleteAlso, why would anyone take an out-of-focused picture of themselves with clearly focused rock crops in the foreground?
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
This is truly a unique experience for everyone and certainly enjoyable for all of us to witness this event that happened so spontaneously. Insofar as copy right it can be copyrighted as the squirrel has no capacity to
ReplyDeletenegotiate a deal to collect fees and the state park is a public place. The scene it self is has NOT been produced so that the public can discern it related to commercial or visual in which some product is associated
and was done before.