I was checking out a new blog yesterday and I immediately recognized the photo that was used for the blog post. I clicked on the photo link and ended up here, a Flickr account that is associated with a youth hostel in South Africa. Anyhow, it's the same photo that got used for a Photoshop contest a few years ago, the product of which ended up getting emailed all over the place with a fake story about two divers who'd been photographed while the enormous white shark approached them from the rear. I'm sure many of you received the email.
Anyhow, I left a comment on the NPR blog, pointing out that the photo most definitely is not the work of the youth hostel (as of a day later, the blog post is unedited), and I also left a comment on the Flickr page, linking to the Snopes site. I think it's pretty rich that people are thanking the Flickr user for licensing an image that doesn't even belong to them.
Any other suggestions for how to dissuade this kind of thing or report this Flickr user? Is it legit to flag a photo for copyright infringement or is flagging strictly for inappropriate content? And do any of you know whose photo this is? The Snopes page about the email hoax says that it was swiped from Great White Adventures, but the link is dead and I can't see the photo on the updated GWA website.
