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Two photo-related corrections:

The
issue of G2 for February 27 this year carried the following headline on
page 12: This is the Rio Grande in 1984. Now turn the page to see what
it looks like in 2006. The picture (on page 15, in fact), showing the
Rio Grande reduced to a trickle, was captioned "the mouth of the Santa
Elena canyon in Big Bend national park today". It was credited to Luis
Mardon [sic] of National Geographic. Marden (not Mardon) died at the
age of 90 in 2003 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He
retired, although not completely, in 1976. The selection of these
pictures had nothing to do with Fred Pearce, the author of the book
When Rivers Run Dry, an extract from which they accompanied. Pearce’s
own research strongly suggests that the picture was part of a sequence
taken for National Geographic in 1939. Apologies all round.

On page 27 of Weekend, August 19, we carried a photograph of a German
bomber over the Surrey docks in 1940.The image should correctly be
printed the other way up so that the Isle of Dogs is then properly
located on the north side of the river rather than on the south. The
authenticity of the picture has in the past been disputed. For example
see millwall-history.org.uk where it appears with the caption: "A Heinkel 111 supposedly over the Surrey Docks on Black Saturday 7th September 1940. In fact it is a fake German propaganda photo given away by the lack of the North terrace cover at the Den [home of Millwall FC] built in 1938."

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