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Shooting the Loch Ness Monster
Photography can be a tough job when the weather turns bad and your model won’t cooperate. Especially when the model is a monster.
There are monsters. I’ve seen them. Well, one.
Cryptozoology has always seemed like a very fringe belief to me, and I used to scoff at stories of yetis, Big Foot and the daddy (or mummy) of them all — the Loch Ness Monster. But I’ve not only seen that most famed of all beasts but spent several days with it, close enough to pat its nose.
At this point you’re probably thinking, ‘Does he mean the real Loch Ness Monster?’. To which the answer is obviously, duh.
But it was real enough. These days, you can generate almost anything with AI or CGI. If you want a ‘photograph’ of a monster you just ask a computer to do it. At the dawn of the 1980s, things weren’t so simple. But we’ll meet Nessie in a minute.
Anything can happen
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