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I didn’t shoot this picture myself but I have permission from the man who shot it to publish this and one or two of his other photographs in exchange for a pro Flickr account sponsorship. A fair deal, I would say.

Then someone took the picture and published it in a forum, and for what reason? To debunk the historic moon landing and to accuse NASA of lying about it.

Actually I have three problems with that, the first is that I believe in the moon landing and am not at all comfortable when an image in this blog was used to purportedly debunk what I myself believe in.

Secondly, the guy in the picture, the one said to the a “giant saxophonist” in the forum, is not at all a giant. He’s an average man, five feet seven or eight, give and take. And I don’t think he is comfortable to be called a giant though I’m sure he has nothing against giant people.

Thirdly, come on guys, it’s a matter of perspective and the lens and whatever you want to call it. Pictures can never be used to measure to compare size of distant objects unless the same camera, lens and setting and scenario is used to make the comparison; and to conclude that one picture — taken decades ago with a different camera in a different setting and in a different planet — can tell the lies of another is just plain out-of-the-world logic.

Come on, if the saxophonist guy can be mistaken for a giant when he is not, there is every reason to believe that the whole thing about comparing the NASA man and the saxophonist is either entirely mistaken or made deliberately with the intention to mislead, and I’m being polite here.

The forum site has taken the liberty to publish my picture (by way of hot linking, no less), so I guess it’s fair if I take the same liberty to publish his, here.

The original picture of the sax man is posted here, “How To Photograph The Moon If You Don’t Have A Telephoto Lens.”