Originally Posted by Ewan Whosearmy
The Su-35 photo posted above is a well-known fake.
Actually, not quite.
(The comments at this link are also instructive).
It did fly without a canopy or rear seat, but there was no in-flight ejection. This photo is the fake:
It was done for a movie, would you believe? Called "
Mirror Wars", apparently. The ejection seems to have been done on the ground (not clear if it was from a flyable airframe) and then faked for the film.