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I don't know about your, but I have the impression that the whole photograph changes only in color balance (a 'sepia' filter?). the right part seems less green

by ithkuil 17y ago

I don't know about your, but I have the impression that the whole photograph changes only in color balance (a 'sepia' filter?). the right part seems less green because it contains more green. If you look carefully on the left side, you will see that it's less green too.

DougBTX 17y ago
To make them easier to compare, before and after pictures resized so they line up with each other properly. Before:http://img714.yfrog.com/i/beforem.png/ http://img714.yfrog.com/i/beforem.png/ After:http://img185.yfrog.com/i/afterq.png/ http://img185.yfrog.com/i/afterq.png/ It shows up the use of the clone tool around the bottom of the images more clearly.
- fnid2 17y ago
  All the farms and all the water on both sides of the dividing line deteriorate in quality. If the detrimental effects were the result of the redistribution of land, then we should see a disproportionate decline in the green farms on the right. Since all the farms declined in fertility and water containment, it appears to me that there was another factor affecting the deterioration than just new owners.
yummyfajitas 17y ago
Seeing as entire lakes have dried up, I really doubt it's just color balance.
- barrkel 17y ago
  Did Mugabe stop the rain from falling, or turn up the volume of the sun shine? It seems a bit of a leap, to be frank; my guess is that those lake beds are dry for much if not most of the year, and only fill up during or after a rainy season.
  - pmjordan 17y ago
    Those lakes are almost certainly not natural, but created by dams. The dams in that part of the world tend to be quite simple and need frequent maintenance. It's easily conceivable that they fell into disrepair and drained.
- zFlix 17y ago
  The blue edges around the dried up lakes seems rather suspect as well. Looks like the result of using the Feather tool on a selection of the lake. For reference before and after satellite images of dried up lakes: http://weheartworld.com/climate-change/global-devastation-hotspot/ http://weheartworld.com/climate-change/global-devastation-ho... Anyone find this in GoogleMaps/Earth?

by ithkuil 17y ago

DougBTX 17y ago

To make them easier to compare, before and after pictures resized so they line up with each other properly. Before:http://img714.yfrog.com/i/beforem.png/ http://img714.yfrog.com/i/beforem.png/ After:http://img185.yfrog.com/i/afterq.png/ http://img185.yfrog.com/i/afterq.png/ It shows up the use of the clone tool around the bottom of the images more clearly.

fnid2 17y ago
All the farms and all the water on both sides of the dividing line deteriorate in quality. If the detrimental effects were the result of the redistribution of land, then we should see a disproportionate decline in the green farms on the right. Since all the farms declined in fertility and water containment, it appears to me that there was another factor affecting the deterioration than just new owners.

yummyfajitas 17y ago

Seeing as entire lakes have dried up, I really doubt it's just color balance.

barrkel 17y ago
Did Mugabe stop the rain from falling, or turn up the volume of the sun shine? It seems a bit of a leap, to be frank; my guess is that those lake beds are dry for much if not most of the year, and only fill up during or after a rainy season.
- pmjordan 17y ago
  Those lakes are almost certainly not natural, but created by dams. The dams in that part of the world tend to be quite simple and need frequent maintenance. It's easily conceivable that they fell into disrepair and drained.
zFlix 17y ago
The blue edges around the dried up lakes seems rather suspect as well. Looks like the result of using the Feather tool on a selection of the lake. For reference before and after satellite images of dried up lakes: http://weheartworld.com/climate-change/global-devastation-hotspot/ http://weheartworld.com/climate-change/global-devastation-ho... Anyone find this in GoogleMaps/Earth?