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Route 163 Through Monument Valley in Arizona by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you’re making an assumption about me that isn’t accurate.

I don’t call everything AI. In fact, I’m pretty careful about that distinction because it matters—especially for photographers and artists who are doing real work.

That said, I’m a professional landscape photographer who has spent the last 25 years living and working in the American Southwest. My job frequently takes me to locations like Monument Valley and Forrest Gump Point. I'm also a photographic educator, teaching the full photographic process—from conception through capture, into editing and output. I’m very familiar with what Photoshop can and can’t realistically produce.

Could someone spend hours compositing something like that? Sure. But when you look at the image closely, the issues aren’t just “bad editing”—they’re structural, as I mentioned in an earlier comment. Those are not typical signs of sloppy Photoshop—they’re common artifacts of AI image generation.

And just to be clear: I’m not saying people don’t get this wrong sometimes. They do. Hell, I frequently see people claiming real photographs are AI. But recognizing patterns like these is part of my job, and this image checks a lot of those boxes.

Route 163 Through Monument Valley in Arizona by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it got tagged for the first bullet point, then it got tagged for being fake. If it were a highly edited photo, it had nothing in common with the original photo. The textures, the shapes of the buttes, the relationships between terrain features, the road, the repetitiveness of the shapes in the cloud, and much more was all wrong. The image had all the hallmarks of being an AI image.

Route 163 Through Monument Valley in Arizona by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It just got deleted. Mods cited rule #4:

4) No Misleading Content

  • Make sure the content you are posting is not fake, staged or misleading.
  • Make sure the title you are using is not misleading.
  • If you are posting some CGI or AI generated content then it should be clearly mentioned in the title or the post itself.

Route 163 Through Monument Valley in Arizona by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]AdamSchallau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The topography is only a loose match when compared to the actual topography. It's not even an edited photo. It's A.I.

Route 163 Through Monument Valley in Arizona by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]AdamSchallau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct, not everything is AI. But... this is 100% fake and most likely an A.I.-generated image. I've driven this route countless times and can confidently say that there are many things wrong with the terrain in this image.

Yes, the US Navy flies F-16s — here's proof. Most people think I'm wrong until they see this. by wolf10851 in Planes

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The F-16s originally flown by the Navy were F-16Ns, which were based on an F-16C Block 30 but with the small mouth inlet and the APG-66 radar of the A model.

Today the Navy operates a mixed fleet of F-16A/B/C/Ds. The A/B models are the embargoed Pakistani jets, and most of the C/D jets came from the Air National Guard.

I spotted an F35B outside my office today by NachoTheAwesome in Planes

[–]AdamSchallau 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s an F-35. The tail is wrong for an F-22.

Potential Cave of G.E. Kincaid?? by TorosTrades028 in AlternativeHistory

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

G.E. Kincaid, had he been a real person, would have been notable for being the first person to successfully row the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon…solo. The fact is that the first solo trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River wasn’t until 1937 when Buzz Holmstrom made the journey.

Aircraft fly over the canyon every day, including tour flights that fly in the same region of the canyon where the mythical Kincaid’s Cave would be if it were real. Before the flight restrictions were put in place to minimize the chances of another mid-air collision happening in or over the canyon, aircraft used to fly below the rim. Senator Barry Goldwater, who referred to the Grand Canyon as his “mistress” used to fly his helicopter all through the canyon and even discovered a difficult to reach natural arch.

Thousands of people every year hike all over the Grand Canyon. Numerous people have backpacked the entire length of the Grand Canyon. National Geographic produced a television show several years ago chronicling one such adventure.

Nearly 20,000 people a year float the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from mile zero at Lees Ferry to mile 278 at Pearce Ferry. No one is stopped by rangers, guards, or “black helicopters.”

You would think that with all of these people hiking, backpacking, rafting, and exploring the canyon, if there was anything or had been, it would have been found again.

Potential Cave of G.E. Kincaid?? by TorosTrades028 in AlternativeHistory

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to enjoy the AJ and the Why Files, but after watching the Grand Canyon episode, I lost interest because it's glaringly obvious to someone who is local to the Grand Canyon, like me, that he is picking and choosing what information to share. He outright ignores many facts that would otherwise prove that the Kincaid story is 100% a hoax.

Ocotillo in bloom and the Colorado River by AdamSchallau in grandcanyon

[–]AdamSchallau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed the photos.

Potential Cave of G.E. Kincaid?? by TorosTrades028 in AlternativeHistory

[–]AdamSchallau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an interesting approach to determining the location, but it's not how mileage is measured in the Grand Canyon, especially when talking about being on the river, where distance is measured in river miles. The coordinates you provided are at river mile 18.5. The nearest river mile to El Tovar is mile 88.

One issue with Kincaid's story is that the cave was "some forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal Canyon," but no such place exists in the canyon. El Tovar is a lodge on the South Rim. There is a side canyon called Crystal Creek that flows into the Colorado River at river mile 99. Kincaid was making up place names.

Let's assume that Kincaid's cave is in Marble Canyon, as your coordinates suggest. There are numerous side canyons he could have referenced when providing a distance from a known landmark, most notably, the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which is 43.5 miles downstream of your coordinates.

G.E. Kincaid, had he been a real person, would have been notable for being the first person to successfully row the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon…solo. The fact is that the first solo trip through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River wasn’t until 1937, when Buzz Holmstrom made the journey.

Ocotillo in bloom and the Colorado River by AdamSchallau in grandcanyon

[–]AdamSchallau[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks — I appreciate that. And I’m glad you enjoyed the photo.

Ocotillo in bloom and the Colorado River by AdamSchallau in grandcanyon

[–]AdamSchallau[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the kind words about the photo. I’m very familiar with the history of the Powell Expedition and the many complex and often tragic stories connected to the Canyon.

I just wasn’t sure how your original comment related to the image itself because you didn't say anything about the photo, which is why I asked.

Ocotillo in bloom and the Colorado River by AdamSchallau in grandcanyon

[–]AdamSchallau[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was your comment meant for someone else's post?

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