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<p>@Tom: wouldn't you expect some intensity variation over the the large area of the secret service guy's legs - shoudln't it bekome less prominent further away from the edges?<br>

It also looks a bit like the shoe of the guy at the car also shows the effect. It is only the diagonal yellow-black line, no other lines shine through.</p>

<p>@Tom: sure about the black holes? CERN could be now mass producing them...<br>

I'm a physicist too and agree with Tom: there are two possible ways this could have happened: <br />- some algorithm in the camera went haywire and produced funky effects<br />- or this could be a photoshop work. However all the "there's some funny pixels" and "the shadows are wrong" sound like wild guesses and the usual "it's a fake" cry.<br>

It would be interesting if you can reproduce it: take some similar situation where somebody stands in front of a line with light coming from the back and check if you get that effect again...</p>

<p>Funny enough, my car's manual doesn't have any warning like that (eg. that you can kill people with it). The only thing the manual says (every second paragraph): NO BIO-DIESEL. Must be them terrorists using cameras all the time and no cars.</p>

So far I haven't been in any places I'd concider really dangerous, but from my (little) experience in hiking in the alps both has advantages or disadvanteges.

 

When you with others, they should be well aware of what you will do. I went hiking with some very good friends, they knew I am a photo nerd, but still they got quite annoyed when I stopped to take pictures and stayed back for a long time to get the right angle, the best view etc. Sometimes I just put the camera away, because it just wasn't possible to take pictures as we wanted to be at some certain place at night.

 

However, we followed some paths you should do in a group, you needed sometimes help to pass a steep step or climb a path. If you carry around some 15kg of luggage, you are happy if somebody is there to give you a hand when climbing or to pass on the backpack at sites where you cannot have it on your back. If you have to do some path at night because you misjudged the time, you are happy if there is somebody with a second lamp, as your sometimes need both hands and your headlamp points somewhere not helpful.

 

If you have the right person to go with you, then take her/him with you, it can only be of help. But finding that right person to accompany you on a photo-trip I believe is harder than finding the love of your life (at least in my experience)