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Posted: 11/9/2011 6:55:49 PM EDT

In light of this thread I thought I'd share another record breaker from the auction today. A photograph named "Rhein II" went for $4.3 million.

Link

I don't get it.

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:57:34 PM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:58:23 PM EDT

[#2]

At least this one doesn't suck

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:58:34 PM EDT

[#3]

Its the compost ision

A photo - not even a painting

Fool, Money, soon parted

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:58:49 PM EDT

[#4]

I was expecting Tiger Wood and a porn star.

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:59:08 PM EDT

[#5]

Yeah...I got nothin'.

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:59:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

I've got a bunch of shitty photos just like that. I'm rich!

Posted: 11/9/2011 6:59:59 PM EDT

[#7]

It's all symmetrical and stuff.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:00:00 PM EDT

[#8]

There must be a back story to this.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:00:14 PM EDT

[#9]

is there a airplane in the sky?

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:00:39 PM EDT

[#10]

Even the clouds are flat.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:01:17 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Even the clouds are flat.

And sad.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:01:39 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
There must be a back story to this.

X2 My wife does alot of photography and has taken much prettier pics than this so there has to be more to it than just a picture of water and green grass with a sewage pipe running in on the left.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:02:07 PM EDT

[#13]

Veblen goods make people stupid.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:02:31 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
is there a airplane in the sky?

Now you're making think that this should be a Photoshop Thread.

Come one, come all deface the most expensive photograph ever.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:02:49 PM EDT

[#15]

WTF

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:03:17 PM EDT

[#16]

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:03:28 PM EDT

[#17]

You people are savages.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:03:32 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Even the clouds are flat.

Everything is a horizontal line.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:03:48 PM EDT

[#19]

I just copied it. Ha ha

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:05:01 PM EDT

[#20]

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:05:45 PM EDT

[#21]

Interesting composition, but hardly millions of dollars worth.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:06:17 PM EDT

[#22]

I'm doing something wrong.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:07:55 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
I just copied it. Ha ha

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:12:09 PM EDT

[#24]

Funny, I thought it would be this:

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:15:57 PM EDT

[#25]

What's Rhine I, Patton pissing in it when he rolled into Germany?

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:16:43 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
is there a airplane in the sky?

Now you're making think that this should be a Photoshop Thread.

Come one, come all deface the most expensive photograph ever.

In before Lootie.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:19:16 PM EDT

[#27]

Living in Southern Utah, AKA color country, I give it a mehhh. I can look out my front door and see better.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:19:33 PM EDT

[#28]

Money laundering.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:21:03 PM EDT

[#29]

NO HAPPY FUCKING TREES

Yes I'm yelling

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:23:45 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Living in Southern Utah, AKA color country, I give it a mehhh. I can look out my front door and see better.

Color me jealous.

One of these days, I'm going to head out to your neck of the woods for some camping, climbing, canyoneering and, hopefully, take a few pictures as gorgeous as the one above.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:25:13 PM EDT

[#31]

Isn't that a screen shot after I defrag?

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:26:05 PM EDT

[#32]

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:26:51 PM EDT

[#33]

^ lol

Largest resolution I could find.

Bigger pic

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:29:29 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
[email=http://www.flickr.com/photos/66009430@N06/6331102144/]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6331102144_bd18d8c847_z.jpg[/email]

Why's he just standing there? I thought his orders were to shoot looters on sight?

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:31:55 PM EDT

[#35]

much better

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:32:44 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
[email=http://www.flickr.com/photos/66009430@N06/6331102144/]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6331102144_bd18d8c847_z.jpg[/email]

Now that is the arfcom that I have grown to love.

The most expensive photo in the world has had lootie shopped into it.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:35:17 PM EDT

[#37]

I would pay more for this one than the one in the OP

Hell, even this one

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:36:00 PM EDT

[#38]

Ah, hell. tag.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:38:00 PM EDT

[#39]

This one has cost us 4 Trillion.

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:40:51 PM EDT

[#40]

Jealous! My next one is called "Rhein III" as seen below. I hope to clear $5.2M this time

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:42:27 PM EDT

[#41]

What a jackass: ill-tailored pants, one shoe untied. The humanity......

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:58:27 PM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 11/9/2011 7:58:43 PM EDT

[#43]

Hell, even I can take better pics than the one in the OP - and I'm no photographer..

I'm just an ordinary guy with a camera and the knowledge of where to go in order to take pics like the ones below

These only costed about $25-$30 worth of gas to drive to the place where they were taken. Totally worth it though

Posted: 11/10/2011 12:02:08 AM EDT

[#44]

Damnit, shouldn't have deleted that off my camera phone.

Posted: 11/10/2011 12:04:38 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Jealous! My next one is called "Rhein III" as seen below. I hope to clear $5.2M this time

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9S03-UiPsyg/TrtLVphZ5sI/AAAAAAAAAVc/lFyhwin0bUw/s640/2480_44%252520Gursky_thumb.jpg

I'll offer you $5.1 and not a penny more... I must own the series!

Posted: 11/10/2011 12:10:39 AM EDT

[#46]

It's probably because of the way the grass forms a face in the lower right corner.

Posted: 11/10/2011 12:16:52 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

It's probably because of the way the grass forms a face in the lower right corner.

Looks like a duplicate tool was used along the line where the eyes are.

I'm calling bullshit photoshop.

Posted: 11/10/2011 1:09:02 AM EDT

[#48]

I'm gonna go against the grain and say it is a beautiful photograph. There is something about it that makes me want to keep staring at it. More so than many more 'exciting' photos. I wonder if some of the classic ratios are involved.

But of course 4.3 million is goddamn insane.

Posted: 11/10/2011 1:19:27 AM EDT

[#49]

I waited for 2 minutes waiting for a periscope to break the surface. Not even a giant reptilian monster crawled out. What a waste of money. A trio of bikinis skiing by? Did not happen either.

Posted: 11/10/2011 1:26:45 AM EDT

[#50]

anybody could have taken the same picture

sometimes when things like this are being reported it is clear this world has lost touch with reality

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