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11:45 am
February 19, 2011
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Nosfer
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Another photograph of the Bownessie has surfaced (no pun intended) Bownessie is the less famous English version of the Scottish Nessie. Bownessie supposedly inhabits Lake Windermere (renown for it's appearance in the movie "Without a Clue")
It is a cellphone shot as most of these are…does nobody go kayaking with a decent lens anymore? The photo is fairly noisy and the supposed creature is quite dark in colour, just a silhouette, in fact.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..t-yet.html
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12:27 pm
February 19, 2011
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In one sense camera phones are great because just about everyone has one on them virtually all the time. Unfortunately their quality is that of cameras 100 years ago so it kind of defeats the purpose.
And you are spot on about the lens. If there's one thing they can't miniaturise it's a good telephoto lens.
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2:32 pm
February 21, 2011
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OK, so the article says the creature has 3 humps, but unless the metric system is even more screwed up than I remember I count 4 humps in the pic.
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4:14 pm
February 21, 2011
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Nosfer
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It could be (this is a stretch) that they are assuming the first hump is the head or at least the neck portion and they only count the 3 behind that as humps.
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8:58 pm
February 21, 2011
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Post edited 11:36 pm – February 21, 2011 by Ghaleon
Anyone else notice that to the right of the pic there is a piece of an artifact midway up the pic? Look at the land mass to the right and what looks to be part of a boat to me that was cropped out. The look of the pic seems suspicious to me. I am going out on a limb and taking a long shot here, but I read not to long ago about 2 movies in the works that are creature features that are about "nessie" like creatures. One of these films I believe is going to be shot in the same amatuer way that Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project was filmed. I kind of get the feeling that this might be a type of viral marketing set up to peak peoples interest in the subject matter before one of these films debuts. Reminds me of the "Super 8 viral swamp monster" that was taken by a deer hunter and went all over the web like wild fire.
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10:43 pm
February 21, 2011
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Nosfer
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No, I didn't notice any artifact on the picture. On a few others, yes, but not the one in the link I posted above. There are dozens of copies of this photo out there and many of them are cropped to different widths to fit the various web pages they are on (they need a picture of X width so they crop the unimportant stuff). The one I linked to is cropped too close too see the "artifact" so you must have seen that on one of the others that has that. Of those I found only one that has a little dark spot there (the ones that are 682x327), but it is very small and not enough there to indicate that it was a boat prow.
What in particular about the look of the photo is suspicious? The fact that the angle is too steep and that the cameraman had to have been up on boat that had a much higher deck than a kayak? Very foggy day…here is what it would look like on a clear day from a boat…higher up than a kayak for sure.
 
Note the buoys. If that dark spot were the prow of a boat it would be BEHIND the "monster" and thus would be a rather large boat…the buoys indicate an "issue" there, ie, Sail ye not here.
Article says: "They said they had kayaked 300m out into the lake near Belle Isle when they
spotted the beast to the south"
The photo is taken looking NORTH BY WEST and Belle Isle would be to the south of the photographer in this configuration. Therefore, they could not have seen the "creature" to the south, or we'd be seeing Belle Isle in the background, not the two islands that we see.
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9:49 am
February 22, 2011
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Good points, Nosfer. Definitely some inconsistencies in the stories. Also phone pics leave much to be desired. As this is the only camera I own at present, its limitations are very frustrating even in bright sunlight.
I really don't think that the two people who saw this were part of a hoax, but they may have been its victims. There is something funny about the wake left behind, but can't quite put my finger on it.
According to the Daily Mail UK, this creature had been spotted five years ago. In all that time, this is the only picture ever obtained of it? Makes me wonder.
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