You never what you'll find when you take a quick photo. One mom snaps her kids in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and the image shows an interesting visitor. December 30, 2013 9:52 AM PST Is that a great white one? (Credit: KTLA-TV Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) You're at the beach with your 12-year-old and his friend. Everyone's having a lovely time, so you take out your phone or some other device and snap a picture of the happy moment. When you look at it later, you see there's something in the background. Yes, that long thing in the water. Is that a fish? Wait, is that a baby great white shark? This seems to have been the sequence of events described by mom June Emerson of her oceanside visit to Manhattan Beach, Calif. More Technically Incorrect Mugger offered flip phone, says 'no thanks' 8-year-old finds Un-Nintended porn on Christmas DS In LA, faulty GPS trackers let criminals roam undetected Two iPods at two different Target stores (both full of erasers?) Teen, upset at not getting iPhone for Xmas, allegedly pulls knife on dad As KTLA-TV reports, Emerson's son Quinn and his friend were having a surfing good time. When she looked at the photo, however, she experienced a "shock." She told KTLA-TV: "Many local surfers and lifeguards have seen this and believe it to be a shark." Did the kids freak when she told them? Well, almost. She said: "Of course, I told my kids it was a dolphin, as we live at the beach and are in the waters here almost daily." Of course, I have a feeling the kids watch TV -- even if they don't, they must have heard that mom's shot was on the local news -- and they now know that it might have been a shark. So the subterfuge may not have been entirely effective there. Apparently, great white shark sightings aren't entirely rare in the area. However, I didn't study enough (any) biology to know whether this is, indeed, a little great white one or a dolphin doing its morning yoga. It seems that all sorts of creatures can invade modern photography. Why, only the other day, a ghost allegedly infiltrated a Peaches Geldof selfie. So please examine your photographs as you're taking them. Just in case the people you're shooting are about to get spooked or eaten.
You never what you'll find when you take a quick photo. One mom snaps her kids in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and the image shows an interesting visitor.
Is that a great white one?
(Credit: KTLA-TV Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
You're at the beach with your 12-year-old and his friend.
Everyone's having a lovely time, so you take out your phone or some other device and snap a picture of the happy moment.
When you look at it later, you see there's something in the background. Yes, that long thing in the water.
Is that a fish? Wait, is that a baby great white shark?
This seems to have been the sequence of events described by mom June Emerson of her oceanside visit to Manhattan Beach, Calif.
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- 8-year-old finds Un-Nintended porn on Christmas DS
- In LA, faulty GPS trackers let criminals roam undetected
- Two iPods at two different Target stores (both full of erasers?)
- Teen, upset at not getting iPhone for Xmas, allegedly pulls knife on dad
As KTLA-TV reports, Emerson's son Quinn and his friend were having a surfing good time.
When she looked at the photo, however, she experienced a "shock."
She told KTLA-TV: "Many local surfers and lifeguards have seen this and believe it to be a shark."
Did the kids freak when she told them? Well, almost. She said: "Of course, I told my kids it was a dolphin, as we live at the beach and are in the waters here almost daily."
Of course, I have a feeling the kids watch TV -- even if they don't, they must have heard that mom's shot was on the local news -- and they now know that it might have been a shark. So the subterfuge may not have been entirely effective there.
Apparently, great white shark sightings aren't entirely rare in the area. However, I didn't study enough (any) biology to know whether this is, indeed, a little great white one or a dolphin doing its morning yoga.
It seems that all sorts of creatures can invade modern photography. Why, only the other day, a ghost allegedly infiltrated a Peaches Geldof selfie.
So please examine your photographs as you're taking them. Just in case the people you're shooting are about to get spooked or eaten.
