Beware the big bad black wolf

” … but not being terribly good at photography, the photo was taken off center.” RIGHT. That’s why it’s framed perfectly, if you know the animal is there.

Also, it’s obviously not taken with a flash. The lighting is too uniform. The back of the woman closest to the camera would be brighter.

Actually, I WOULD wanna be this close to an animal like this. This is definitely a shop considering wolves rarely interact with people, ESPECIALLY a lone wolf. He/she would be heading in the opposite direction as fast as possible upon picking up the scent of humans. It’s a shame that someone would impose malicious intent on such an awesome creature. D:

Every autumn, I go camping near a river with a good salmon run, and the place is just lousy with black bears, all fat and happy. Generally they stay fifty feet away or so, though I’ve had a few encounters on trails where the bear suddenly appears ten feet away.

The stupidest thing I’d ever done was lay down a trail of pepper spray around the tent at night, with the hope of keeping the bears back. Quite a surprise to wake up and see a bunch of bears licking the grass outside your tent.

BC has just phenomenal wildlife. There is nothing that compares with paddling by a pod of Orcas.

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I looked at the large image. First off, where is the wolfs shadow? The wolf also looks like he is running, about to attack. Not like he sneaking up. If something is running in to your shot….you see it.

Anyone who knows anything about photography knows that photos with subjects that are centered are boring.

LOL! Nice photoshop work ;)

Here is why its FAKE.

First of all its a dog, and its running the other way. Zoom in on his legs, the front legs are actually his back legs. They just pasted a face onto the running dogs butt.

Besides, there is no flash in this photo, which means the eyes would not glow.

“Besides, there is no flash in this photo, which means the eyes would not glow.”

Download the large version of it and load it into an EXIF viewer. You can clearly see that the flash was fired when the shot was taken. You can also see the reflection of the flash off the woman’s handbag and jewelery (look under the left arm of the woman with her back to the camera). What is with people these days?? OMG ITS TOTALLY SHOPPED!!!1111!!

This picture is faked, unquestionably:

There are *no* black wolves in British Columbia. There *are* Gray wolves and they are very light coloured gray with patches of white and a darkish “saddle” area on their back.

That this picture has been taken in B.C. is quite likely, actually this picture seems to have been taken on Vancouver Island, you can see it’s in a park, there is a salmonberry bush right in front of the little girl and there are oregon grape plants and sword ferns all around. Classic Vancouver Island park picture. Possible a park within an hour drive of where I am right now.

There are supposed to be wolves on Vancouver Island, I’ve never seen one but I’ve read that there are and that they are unique sub species of the Gray wolf, at least some pictures of them I’ve seen show them to be all white.

The “wolf” in this picture is a dog, possibly a Belgian Sheep dog breed, probably the family dog walking away from the camera and the face has been photoshopped on to it. The face is probably the same dog from another photo taken the same day walking toward the camera.

The shadows are not meaningful because this is a very overcast day in a very dark forest and the dog is standing in the shadow of the large trees around either side of the trail which are evergreens and are blocking out even the overcast light that is coming in, the people are in a clearing which is why they are casting very faint shadows and the dog with the photoshopped face isn’t.

I think is a very cool and funny image in any case but there is no question it’s not real.

The woman in front is looking in the direction of the “wolf”. From EXIF data you can see there was plenty of light (ISO 140, f/4.8, 1/90, so the wolf wasn’t hidden in the darkness — it would be immediately apparent even in peripheral vision. So the animal in the picutre is “canis lupus”, but of the “familiaris” subspecies.

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According to the rule of thirds, photographs shouldn’t be centered. Even if the wolf hadn’t been there, this would actually be a more ideal shot in this case because you can see the rest of the trail, giving the viewer a kind of extra emotion added into the mix. Probably not what her mom was thinking at the time, but just thought I should share.

The picture looks real, but there are certain things that don’t fit to the story and technical issues.
The picture was taken without a flash, thats easy to see.
If you brighten up the picture it really looks like its a dog running away with the head of a wolf photoshoped on its back.

See for yourself :

http://rapidshare.com/files/100021863/bright.jpeg.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/100021995/pixel-difference.jpeg.html

There you can see that the structure of the pixel encoding from the jpeg is not the same all over the image, which it should be, if its taken with the same camera ;-)

I lightened up the big version a little so you can make it out better, to decide yourselves.

The legs do bother me somewhat as it looks quite ambiguous as to what direction it’s walking, however, I suspect it’s real, but most likely a family dog.

But, meh.

here you go: http://www.b3tards.com/u/464e8c2a733e15cd202c/untitled-1.jpg

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to be fair i think the women FACING DIRECTLY at the ”big bad wolf” would of noticed it,and this picture defenatly was NOT taking with a flash any1 can see that and im pretty sure wolves eyes dont just glow all the time so to any1 on this page THIS PIC IS FAKE!! ….but gd photoshopping nevertheless

it is very obvious that the wolf understood that there was much more to the rule of thirds than the photographer knew about. Which is why he was in the photograph afterwards. The wolf was on his way to let the children touch his fur. I know because i live very close to campbell river. There have been at least 20 wolves in the last 5 years that know about the rule of thirds and also let children touch their fur. As for the time stamp, i printed the photo out and after putting it into the same environment, (laying the photo on a similar path) i noticed that the light was in honor to the time stamp, so it is a true stamp that was on there to begin with.

this picture is most definitely photo shopped. If you squint your eyes,you can tell that there is still a pile of crap between the little girl and the wolf. that’s where i was standing. they took me out of the photo. (the rest is real)

The organism you’re seeing is a black Russian wolf, Canis lupus communis, identifiable by the ratio of the eye spacing to the width of the head as well as the large-space pronation of the limbs. My specialty is in Alaskan Timber Wolves, but Russians are very distinctive. They do tend to have dark coats, but a black one is rare, as is one of this size (although they are very large animals).

It is extensively unlikely that a wolf of that size would be unaccompanied. At that size, it’s unlikely it would be a rogue omega and even if it were an omega, they rarely leave packs. A rabid wolf is a possibility however.

It’s unusual that you are viewing the tapetum lucidum (tissue in the eye that causes the reflective effect) as 1. no flash is visible 2. the ambient light is too great 3. the wolf would likely be focused on the child, not the camera

… even the “full sized photo” looks painted.

I know Seal Bay Park. No way you’d run into a wolf there, it’s too close to town (about a 10-15 minute drive) and way to busy. That’s someone’s hairy black mutt getting some internet fame.

John:

There are many black and dark colored wolves on Vancouver Island. For instance, Wacipi, a young female, came from Vancouver Island. In time she will become black just like her mother:

http://www.wolfmountain.com/wacipi021205-fullside.jpg

that is really wolf i did see befrom like that in ohio. it real

ITS FAKE, first, the eyes of the wolf dont look real to me, they would look that bright maybe if the pic was taken with flash but then you look at the people on the pic and as someone else said, the lightning is too uniform. It doesnt look like it was taken with the flash, its a CONTRADICTION.

to take a second look it looks like a dog running from the family and and a wolf head photo shopped on its back lol and i lived in florida at the time and any type of wild dog is not regioned there the dog i seen didnt look like a wolve it looked more like a black german shepard but with bright ass red eyes its wierd how so many people has an encounter with this type of dog but its like once you have seen somthing out of the ordinary ppl always seem to think you lying or just crazy

Bonjour

Une photo intéressante qu’il serait nécessaire de retoucher pour fait apparaître plus distinctement le loup noir. Pour ce qui est de la qualité de la photo, du centrage, ce décentré de l’animal nous le fait apparaître plus tard. En premier, nous voyons les personnes et ensuite les yeux du loup… seulement après que nos yeux s’habituent il est possible de discerner la silhouette de celui – ci !!!

Merci pour la photo

Best regards

Raymond from Switzerland

Rubbish.

The ”wolf” is running the other way
Jst save the picture then open it on whatever programme and zoom in on it.

So fake.

I found this interesting,even if it is fake or not. I stumbled on this page while looking for information on black wolves in BC. I downloaded and have on my desktop a pic that is of a very black wolf peering out from the underbrush smack into the camera. the photo was no doubt taken with a long range lens, but I found it so interesting and almost hypnotic. Is there some kind of verbal war about where the black wolves are? I can’t remember where I downloaded the pic but it is only used for personal use. It is sort of a rememberance of my trip to BC. Most of the sites suggest that the black wolf is a mutation of cross-bred with a stray black dog. That seem like a very possible suggestion. After all where did the dogs come from. We in the US shot and killed all our wolves but they are coming back thanks to Canada. Thank you black wolves, grey wolves and even tannish wolves,They are mating well and culling out our over abundance of deer and elk in yellowstone and othear natural area like nature means to do.

I think this is clearly faked. All I did in this image was put a black circle over the “head”. Without that, it’s clearly a dog headed in the other direction.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6828/wolffullsize.png

today is Friday and I seen a red eyed wolf. I am 9 years old.