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Since childhood, photographer Claudio Contreras Koob has been obsessed with flamingos. He spent over a decade gathering 120 stunning portraits of the bright pink birds in Yucatán, Mexico, now ...
With AI-generated images fooling prestigious competitions, Miles Astray decided it was time to turn the tides: his real portrait of a flamingo won an AI award before it was ultimately disqualified.
After an image of a headless flamingo placed in an international competition for A.I.-generated photography, its creator revealed his secret to success: The photo was real.
Miles Astray’s flamingo shot was disqualified, but made a statement nonetheless: “Nature is just so fantastic and creative, and I don’t think any machine can beat that,” he said.
Meet Bob, the Flamingo Ambassador of Curaçao. After flying into a hotel window, this flamingo was rescued by a local vet and has become a rising educational star on the island.
On Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, Caribbean flamingos breed by the thousands. Photographer Claudio Contreras Koob turns his lens on the chicks in his new book.
For that AI category, Astray submitted an image that appeared to show a flamingo without its head and neck—but that was a little white lie. The piece, entitled F L A M I N G O N E, is a real ...
MANNAR, Sri Lanka — With reddish-pink, brushstroke-like smudges on its wings, legs and large downward-curved beak, the greater flamingo is a stunning bird to watch, particularly in flight as ...
With AI-generated images fooling prestigious competitions, Miles Astray decided it was time to turn the tides: his real portrait of a flamingo won an AI award before it was ultimately disqualified.