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Originally Posted by punky
There is no way an active soldier could be out there without a watch (and they have standard issue ones don't they?)
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And if he'd spent any time in Iraq with a watch on, there would be a noticable "tan mark" where the watch should have been...
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Also, I thought it was a bit weird the pictures aren't in colour, but put it down to the Mirror's choice of ink because of economy, etc. But apparently the source pictures were in Black & White too. Now if the pictures were taken by digital camera (which they were supposed to have been, as that is what soldiers have out there), surely they would of been taken in colour.
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I don't know of any digtal camera that takes B&W pictures by default. There are some that can be deliberately set to do so, but there is no legitimate reason that I can think of why anyone would do so with pictures like these.
It is, of course, possible that the pictures have been grey-scaled after the event, but again, I can see no reason why someone would do so.
Speaking as a photographer, the pictures immediately struck me as almost definitely having been staged. If you look at a posed photo and a candid pic even if you don't know what is wrong, you get a feel for whether someone is standing in a certain way because that's the way they happen to be standing and someone who has been told "stand like this".
Unless they're an experienced model who has practiced how to pose, the image will look artificial, and these pics certainly looked like that.