# stunning picture **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933 "2004-04-25T17:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/21 "2004-04-26T01:18:31Z")
Paint Shop Pro expert here adding 2 cents: an edge enhance didn’t reveal anything out of the ordinary. One can only imagine the look on those surfers’ faces though. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/22 "2004-04-26T01:29:59Z")
I didn’t for one nanosecond think this was a fake. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/23 "2004-04-26T05:37:59Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I didn’t for one nanosecond think this was a fake. [Well I don’t know, in looking at it more closely there _are_ some subtle, low level digital anomalies.](http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cpeek001/qDolphins.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/24 "2004-04-26T12:31:59Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Well I don’t know, in looking at it more closely there _are_ some subtle, low level digital anomalies.](http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cpeek001/qDolphins.jpg) _squints eyes_ … … … Nope, can´t see nuthin´ wrong there. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/25 "2004-04-26T12:46:12Z")
I’m not a photo expert, nor a marine biologist. But I’ve spent lots of time at sea. I’m a Navy veteran. This wouldn’t be out of line with how dolphins swim and behave around people. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/26 "2004-04-26T12:58:51Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Well I don’t know, in looking at it more closely there _are_ some subtle, low level digital anomalies.](http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cpeek001/qDolphins.jpg) Dammit, **astro** , you finally did it! All those years of exercising iron control at the keyboard shot to hell. It _would_ have to be orange juice, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/27 "2004-04-26T13:03:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by hazel-rah > what is it about this photo that makes you suspect it might be fake? > [@](#): > > The black people surfing? The Hasidic Jewish Surfer’s Union wants to have a word with you. ---
**Author:** ![a\_nona\_mouse3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@a\_nona\_mouse3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_nona_mouse3)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/28 "2004-04-26T13:51:20Z")
they do love waves here is proof [more having fun](http://www.knona.com/dolphins.htm) no surfers this time ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/29 "2004-04-26T14:26:12Z")
[ANOTHER stunning photo!](http://www.phasers.net/2360/p1-co05.jpg) Look Ma! No beard! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/30 "2004-04-26T14:27:14Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > [ANOTHER stunning photo!](http://www.phasers.net/2360/p1-co05.jpg) > > Look Ma! No beard! 😃 Darnit! Site won’t let me link! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![gkkk4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gkkk4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkkk4)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/31 "2004-04-26T14:45:12Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > Highly doubtful. > > A photoshop expert will be here soon to descredit (or maybe verify) this picture. it’s the surfers that look a bit off to me (and no, it’s not their apparent “color” either!) - the dolphins are way cool though - and so are all the other dolphin pics mentioned here. Thanks! Good way to start a rainy Monday… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/32 "2004-04-26T15:43:08Z")
I saw a program on the Discovery Channel not so long ago that had footage of dolphins surfing. Maybe not quite as many at once, but they very obviously enjoy it and love joining in with humans. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/33 "2004-04-26T16:09:24Z")
It looks real to me. ---
**Author:** ![stochastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@stochastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stochastic)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/34 "2004-04-26T16:44:48Z")
About 20 years ago, I was body surfing at Bolsa Chica State Beach in SoCal. I caught a good-sized wave, and then noticed two larger-than-human sized objects with fins in the wave with me, about 5 feet away. I freaked, immediately thinking “SHARK ATTACK!!!”. I swam in as fast as I could, sprinted through the white wash and collapsed, trembling on the sand. Only then did it strike me that their tail fins were horizontal, not vertical and that I had just surfed with dolphins, not sharks. Alas, the dolphins didn’t stick around for another ride. ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/35 "2004-04-26T16:55:50Z")
> [@gkkk4](#): > > it’s the surfers that look a bit off to me (and no, it’s not their apparent “color” either!) - the dolphins are way cool though - and so are all the other dolphin pics mentioned here. Thanks! Good way to start a rainy Monday… 🆒 I dont see it… What about the surfers looks off to you? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/36 "2004-04-26T17:13:16Z")
Things going thru those surfers minds: \*Flipper? I never even kissed her! What is my porpoise in life?\* And ending with… 27 dorsal fins. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/37 "2004-04-26T17:16:56Z")
> [@a\_nona\_mouse3](#): > > they do love waves here is proof > > [more having fun](http://www.knona.com/dolphins.htm) There isn’t enough “WHEEEEEE!” in the world to sufficiently caption that series of photos. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/38 "2004-04-26T17:33:02Z")
Dolphins…swimmmig around in the water, that’s not right! Swimming in the waves like crazy people! ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/39 "2004-04-26T17:40:54Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Almost every picture](http://www.magicisle.com/images/post/do15_75.jpg) > [I’ve seen of dolphins](http://www.rapture.cc/photo%20gallery/dolphins%20noah.jpg) > [**shows them in schools**](http://www.samasati.com/images/dolphins.jpg) > [surfing or not.](http://www.graphics-muse.org/travel/nz1999/images/dolphins.jpg) Dolphins are too smart to swim in schools. They have graduated to pods… just fyi… > [@Philster](#): > > Dolphins…swimmmig around in the water, that’s not right! Swimming in the waves like crazy people! 😃 Soooo funny! I miss that guy. What ever happened to Kevin Anderson(?)? ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933/40 "2004-04-26T17:55:02Z")
I’ve actually seen this action in real life, although under decidely different circumstances. A friend and I were caught out in the Santa Barbara Channel in a small open boat during a small craft advisory - eight foot swells and a howling wind. We had to gun the boat up the face of a wave, then turn towards shore and gain a few precious yards before turning back into the next wave to keep from being swamped. For a brief period we were surrounded by dolphins. As we would blast up the face of a wave, they would be surfing down it. Here we were trying to stave off certain death, and they were having the time of their lives! It was then that I decided I wanted to come back as a dolphin in my next life! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-picture/241933.md?page=3)