I'm not so sure.....(did Saab Dastard subtly call this first?
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Certainly its a Catalina. But taking the image and blowing it up a bit in photoshop I am pretty certain its a montage with the 'Cat' pasted onto the recent photo of Thomas Dolby. The pixel patterning where it is pasted is pretty clear. The 'Cat' also looks unnaturally blurred compared to the sharp horizon. I might be wrong.
But for sure most agencies and photographers given the chance would always use a stock historic image and pay a royalty rather than go through the horrendousy expensive arrangements of Norfolk weather, personality with EXACTLY the right pose at the right time and Catalina in the right place at the same time.
Its certainly a Catalina, but I am sure its 'photoshopped' so it could be any machine, taken at any time, in any country.
I think it might even be this pic from the main PBY Catalina page on wikipedia, reversed and blurred a bit.......then cloned into the main pic......
Things are not always as they seem.........Nice result though.....
Cheers
Corsairoz
2 minutes in photoshop and......
