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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 1709060" data-attributes="member: 7427">This photo did not seem to be suspicious due to pixel-peeking but due to recognition of the animal itself so it would not make a difference for this one. The removal of irritating branches etc is a different story, which if done well maybe cannot be proven any longer.I remember a story of a photographer taking a photo of an interesting person in a market somewhere exotic. However, it irritated him that in the frame there was an obvious foreigner, so he waited five minutes until that person left and took another picture; at home he cut the offending person out of the first picture and replaced the cutout with the background of the same part of the scene from image two with an excellent result. However, he told the story himself, so in that case, there was no cheating. Niels</blockquote>