Real or fake?

[arcadian]

Can any photo shop experts determine if this is real or not? I'm thinking fake. But with the recent tsunami, was thinking it might be possible.

[Juneboarder]

1. Fake with a capital effffffff

[XemaSab]

2. It's not a tsunami

Could be real.

Flat seas with a steady wind could create something like that.

[arcadian]

3. Couldn't be the wind.

If it's real, that would be a ground swell.

[Schema Thing]

4. I suspect it is multiple shots taken over time, merged in Pshop

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I don't know-- I think it's real, but...

waves of that height shouldn't be that close together, and there are usually smaller waves in between.

And they are high, if that's a person standing there on the beach for comparison.

The thing is, though, that I know a little about wave dynamics but only have experience here on the north Atlantic-- this could be anywhere and there could be all sorts of conditions causing it. There are many mysterious phenomena in the world.

I am fairly sure, though, that no one took one or two waves ands repeated them-- all the waves in the picture are different ones.

[arcadian]

7. That's a point break.

And I have seen corduroy like that in Hawaii but further out.

[Warpy]

6. There is an outside chance it's real

but it has nothing to do with tsunami waves, only with underwater structures that cause combers to break along a sharp rise underwater.

Tsunami waves are typically 20 minutes or so apart.

[Jamastiene]

8. Looks fake to me.

The crests of the waves are too straight, too close together, and too uniform in appearance. The absolute straight lines in absolutely equal intervals makes it look fake anyhow.

[NoSheep]

9. It's lovely whatever it is. I adore the color.

[kctim]

10. Totally agree!

[laconicsax]

11. .

[Fumesucker]

12. The waves aren't identical and aren't all spaced the same..

It seems like a lot of work to go to in order to Photoshop it for no particularly good reason.

[pipi_k]

13. I agree...plus they go out quite a way to the horizon, getting progressively

lighter and closer together.

Like you said, an awful lot of trouble for no really good reason...

[dysfunctional press]

14. that was my thought as well...

each of the waves is different from the others.

[slackmaster]

15. It looks like a real photo of a very long set of short-period regular sea waves

Definitely not a tsunami.

There's a place near Durban, South Africa that often has a regular break like that.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

16. I vote fake

All those waves are regular and well-formed going out, out, out into the ocean.

Doesn't work that way.

Six or seven I could buy but that's too many waves to be showing such distinctive peaks simultaneously.

Probably fake, but not any weirder than some stuff that's real.

[petronius]

17. I think real, although not tsunami related in any way

The only thing that makes me think fake is the lack of surfers - a wave like that would not be overlooked...

[KittyWampus]

21. sharks? Could also be really shallow.

[Edweird]

18. I've seen waves like that in real life off Palm Beach.

Back when that storm hit G.H.W. Bush's place in Maine. This was like 20 years ago.

They were 40' high and breaking waaaaaay out. It was a clear, sunny day, with a slight breeze and waves of death.
I (barely) paddled out the day before. It was double overhead and too much for me.

[Stevenmarc]

19. Real, probably taken with a fairly long telephoto lens which tends to compress the image

the waves are more than likely a lot further spaced than they appear in the photo

[KittyWampus]

20. I've seen three lines of nice, neat breakers. Never that many though. Heck of a lot of sandbars

but I say real.

[PCIntern]

22. Damn you! I thought we were going to see pics of Katherine Harris..

Really...and all I got for effort were some weird waves...not even Waves in the archaic sense.

[Fla_Democrat]

23. Not quite the picture I was expecting

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