Yeah - the guy who said, "As far as I'm concerned, if you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all", and who carved his initials on pretty trees and logs in public parks in his youth, and in his adulthood on otherwise beautiful rocks on his own property. For someone like him, that's of historic interest; for anyone else, it would be called vandalism. Well, I guess Jean-Michel Basquiat got away with it too.
I have seen Photoshopped pictures of polar bears on desert islands along with a palm tree, or giraffes on icebergs. That's all whimsy of course. But just this week deep fakes of a particular politician and his alleged words have showed up in relation to the election cycle in another country. It will only get worse. But long before, elections were lost or won, and wars begun, by mere published sketches of untrue things.
I've been an uncompromising non-fan of Faux-tographers like Peter Lik, who should publish a book called, Nature's Pimp. Actually, I pity him because he doesn't take the time to actually see and experience anything, and is just after giant postcardy stereotypes as a marketable commodity. You only live once. Why spend it spraying fluorescent paint atop scenes which are kitchy to begin with? The real world is far more beautiful anyway. Bad sadly, that's what so many people take for granted until its already almost gone.