I remember when I was a kid. My mom got eaten my ducks in a teacup. From that day on, I vowed that I would not rest until those darn ducks were brought to justice. Then, I got some donuts and ate them. They were jelly. Then. I went home and went to sleep. I was woken by a mystical wizard named RUdolfus. He had a fancy hat. He offered me three wishes. I first wished my cat had its leg back. I then wished jama comina was there. My last wish was for a fence full of penguins and lamas. I loved those penguins until they got hit by a mketeor and all died. I cried for ten minutes, but didny give up hope. This was just the beginning. I left for my new home in alaska on that faithfull day. Never to return again, until i RETURN. The moral of the story is, Never to trust Ducks in teacups to be honest.

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I’ve always been rather struck by the irony of people who denounce accusations of photoshoppery based on the poster’s (assumed) lack of photographic knowledge. Pot, kettle, black, etc. Which isn’t to say anything one way or another about this particular image. As for why people would risk their professional careers on something like this, though, I would suggest doing a little web searching on a certain t-shirt “artist” who’s been making some plagar-iffic waves lately. Again, not to pass any form of judgment on this particular picture or artist. Just to answer that rhetorical question.

I’ll have a cuppa quakers and soup please.

They’d swim right out of the cup? Look at the photo, for yog’s sake. Clearly they have. They’re churning the water like mad and splattering it all over the place.

Photoshop, my ass. You can see the walls of the cup in the water. It is, however, an UNUSUALLY LARGE COFFEE CUP. Check the proportion of the handle to the cup!

We’re in your mugz, schwimmink up a stormkz.

Ilona: You are *not* right. These are *not* fabricated. Please don’t just make serious accusations based on completely wild guesses, because that’s exactly what you’re doing. Richard Austin takes photos like these for a living and The Daily Mail has an enormous readership. Think about it. *Why* would these be faked? Where’s the motivation? If these turned out to be faked, the guy could very likely lose his professional reputation and livelihood. Who’d risk that over a couple of ducklings? Seriously! On top of this, it would be MUCH harder to “fake” something like this, than to actually stick two baby ducks in a really big coffee mug and take a picture! Especially if you’re already a pro photographer, with studio, gear, flash umbrellas, etc. Once you have the lighting right, it’s a few clicks and you have your pix. But try compositing something like that, or modeling it from scratch, and you’ll be at it all day. Or longer! I don’t care how good you are with digital photo-retouching or 3D-rendering software, it’s just not feasible to “fabricate” this picture.

Also, Gizmo didn’t say these were faked; it was Colin. Get your comments straight, OK?

http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Photoshopped

I don’t CARE. I take cuteness where I find it, even when found courtesy of Adobe. Bleah.

Gizmo is right, this is fabricated. These lil ducklingadings are to die for, though! t(^-^)t

If you read the article there’s a picture of them all wrapped up in a towel, drying off. I don’t think you have anything to worry about.