{"id":188099,"date":"2026-02-17T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/how-this-photographer-captured-an-image-so-stunning-people-thought-it-was-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:40:13","slug":"how-this-photographer-captured-an-image-so-stunning-people-thought-it-was-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/how-this-photographer-captured-an-image-so-stunning-people-thought-it-was-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How this photographer captured an image so stunning, people thought it was AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa\/south-africa-night-photography-kyle-goetsch-spc\">How this photographer captured an image so stunning, people thought it was AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa\/south-africa-night-photography-kyle-goetsch-spc\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa\/south-africa-night-photography-kyle-goetsch-spc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-17 04:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kyle Goetsch, a South African nature photographer with a background in biochemistry, captured a stunning image of a giraffe silhouetted against the backdrop of a pink moon over a sand dune in the Namib desert.<\/li>\n<li>Although artificial intelligence was not used in the creation of this image, the photograph&#8217;s unique composition has led some viewers to question whether it has been manipulated.<\/li>\n<li>Goetsch transitioned from his career in biochemistry to photography after discovering his talent for capturing breathtaking landscapes and astronomical phenomena during a 2018 trip.<\/li>\n<li>His photograph of the Milky Way over the Lion\u2019s Head mountain in Cape Town became a viral hit, kick-starting his career in astrophotography.<\/li>\n<li>Goetsch has an ongoing mission to promote southern Africa&#8217;s pristine dark skies and minimal light pollution as prime destinations for night and astrophotography.<\/li>\n<li>The South African government has embraced this aim, with a national strategy to become a global leader in astro-tourism, including the designation of the Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve as the country\u2019s first International Dark Sky Park.<\/li>\n<li>Goetsch frequently collaborates with observatories, like the Southern Africa Large Telescope, to explore the field of astrophotography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How this photographer captured an image so stunning, people thought it was AI https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa\/south-africa-night-photography-kyle-goetsch-spc Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/23-giraffe-moon-namibrand-1.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-188099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188101,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188099\/revisions\/188101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}