One question that I’m often asked is whether or not a given photo is Photoshopped.  I’m never quite sure what to make of this query because I’m never quite sure what people are really asking.  Because the term ‘Photoshop’ has become something of a catch-all term that is usually used to describe some element of fakery associated with a given image.  Did I use the program Photoshop to lighten the wood on the under side of the collapsed cottage?  Absolutely.  Did I ‘Photoshop’ in the chair?  Absolutely not.

And people really like to ask me if I Photoshopped in the chair.

This inevitably produces an interesting conversation.  I tell them the image is not Photoshopped and the people express surprise.  They then tell me that it’s just so unusual looking that they had to ask.  I respond by stating that precisely because it looked so unusual, I had to take a picture of it.  I usually get a grunt of a response and then a closer investigation of the image to see if they can see any left over cloning marks of evidence of Photoshopping, I suppose.

All of this has been a long winded way of explaining, the chair was not Photoshopped in.  I was walking down the beach, saw this chair just sitting there, took a couple of photos, wandered a way for a few minutes, came back and the chair was gone.  I have no idea whether it was placed there, where it was somehow moved there by the tide or whether there’s a third option that I haven’t thought of yet.  All I know is that randomly finding chairs in places they shouldn’t be is pretty cool.

As an aside, the little green pieces of paper you see on the sand are twenty dollar bills from a Monopoly game.