{"id":8770,"date":"2017-10-23T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T01:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/beautiful-photo-but-not-of-dilijan\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T01:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T01:50:15","slug":"beautiful-photo-but-not-of-dilijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2017\/10\/23\/8770\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Photo, But Not of Dilijan"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the third day that a photo allegedly depicting Dilijan has been making the rounds on Armenian social media. Those sharing the photo have been writing \u201cThe road in Dilijan,\u201d \u201cCharming Dilijan,\u201d \u201cVisit Armenia,\u201d and other such posts and using the hashtag #Dilijan or its Armenian equivalent #\u0534\u056b\u056c\u056b\u057b\u0561\u0576.<\/p>\n

In fact, the photo doesn\u2019t depict Dilijan. During the three days, there have been posts on social media, on Facebook and Twitter, that prove that the photo was not taken in Dilijan \u2014 it was taken in Japan<\/a>. It is Iroha-zaka Road, which connects Nikko to Okunikko.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to figure out that the photo was taken not in Armenia, but in Japan. All you have to do is a reverse image search on a search engine, for example, in Google.<\/p>\n

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Step 1: Open Google Image Search<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Step 2: Search the photo in question \u2014 either by uploading it or by importing the photo\u2019s web link in the search engine.<\/p>\n

Step 3: Get the results and analyze where and when the photo was first published.<\/p>\n

To speed up the process, you can use RevEye<\/a>. It\u2019s a Google Chrome extension and allows you to reverse image search in various search engines: Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, TinEye.<\/p>\n

Actually, it\u2019s not a difficult process. And perhaps the fake photo of Dilijan wouldn\u2019t have been shared this much on Facebook and Twitter if those sharing it admitted their mistake and tried to fix it.<\/p>\n

For example, Public Radio decided to republish head of Hydromet Service Gagik Surenyan\u2019s \u201cEnjoy our golden autumn\u201d post on its website and used the fake photo of Dilijan<\/a>. And they didn\u2019t check that the photo had nothing to do with autumn in Armenia.<\/p>\n

ARMACAD, one of the most influential users on Facebook, for example, on October 20 shared the same photo on its Facebook page<\/a>, accompanied by the caption \u201cThis is a road to one of the best Universities in the world. Can you guess the University and the country?\u201d The subtext is obvious, and in the comments below the post, many gave the wrong answer \u2014 \u201cDilijan.\u201d There is also the correct answer. However, ARMACAD\u2019s Facebook page administrator has yet to interject and in no way has helped in the fake photo being shared less. On October 21, 2017, 615 users liked the post and 14 shared it. On the same day, ARMACAD\u2019s page had 58,292 followers. Instead of playing a game, wouldn\u2019t it have been worth informing followers about the fake photo of Dilijan?<\/p>\n

On October 19, Support Armenia shared the fake photo on Twitter<\/a>. On October 21, the tweet had been retweeted 121 and liked 231 times. Twitter users commenting on the photo had said that it was a photo taken in Japan, not Armenia, but Support Armenia, which has 22.5 thousand followers on Twitter, did not respond to the comments. Perhaps Support Armenia thought that sharing a fake photo of Armenia\u2019s beauty actually supports Armenia?<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not as though Armenia doesn\u2019t have beautiful scenery. And it\u2019s not as though autumn is not wonderful in Armenia. And it\u2019s not that there are no photos of Armenia\u2019s golden autumn. If on Facebook famous and unknown photographers\u2019 works are no enough, you can just visit Photolure<\/a> or PanPhoto<\/a> Armenian photo agencies. I personally would suggest not that well known German photographer Kai Prager\u2019s work<\/a>. He photographed Armenia in 2013, 2015, and 2016.<\/p>\n

Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the third day that a photo allegedly depicting Dilijan has been making the rounds on Armenian social media. Those sharing the photo have been writing \u201cThe road in Dilijan,\u201d \u201cCharming Dilijan,\u201d \u201cVisit Armenia,\u201d and other such posts and using the hashtag #Dilijan or its Armenian equivalent #\u0534\u056b\u056c\u056b\u057b\u0561\u0576. In fact, the photo doesn\u2019t depict Dilijan. Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critique","category-verified","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}