#66 Well... t would be VERY easy to doctor these photos poorly. I actually spent some time analysing the paterns in the leaves. As you know, most paint retouching involves sampling paterns from the same photo to preserve color, saturation and exposure. The usual giveaway is when you can recognize patterns duplicated in the same photo. This is what gave away a doctored AP photo taken in Iraq a couple months ago. The compositing of 2 photos is a possibility as well I admit. I suppose the 300dpi version would show evidence of this for sure though unless it were perfect. Either way, I still doubt they were manipulated.