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Originally Posted by ProphetM
That first picture is actually an illustration, not a photograph. While it appears extremely accurate and was probably based on a real photograph, there still exists the probability that some aspects of the scene were altered for clarity. Certainly the people and vehicles were altered to some extent; at least some of them would have been blurry in a source photo. The road is also remarkably flat and consistent, especially compared to the real photo. It looks more like pavement than dirt. This might be the artist's alteration, or maybe the road really was better. It's possible some minor alteration was made when illustrating the mast as well. In any case, I think the illustration is from somewhat later than the photo.
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Fair enough for the sake of historical accuracy. To tell you the truth, I don't remember ever seeing the original unaltered (digitally altered?) photo before. We'll have to ask brother Scott where it came from.
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