Notso sez;
"No amount of foreshortening in a telephoto can actually make the runway further away wider than nearer, as the red bars show"
Err, unless I'm mistaken (which is perfectly possible after staring at the damn thing for so long) the red bars show the runway to be wider at the bottom of the photo than they are at the top? i.e. the perspective is not impossible. A very rough measurement on my screen shows the runway to be about 10% wider at the bottom than the top
SB sez'
"those circles should be almost circlular"
Don't know about that, I'm limiting myself to trying to explain the apparent nose up angle, and use of a long lens could easily explain it.
"Of course you can .What do you think LAX is when viewed from above. A series of lines and circles.....same principles of perspective apply"
Indeed, but they look very different when viewed through different lenses, i.e. human eye versus telephoto.
I'm not saying the picture is genuine or fake, just that its major apparent anomaly is explainable.