Liu Weiqiang’s tens of thousands of clicks

“This is a photo that everyone is familiar with. It made my eyes light up when I first saw it: the train on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Tibetan antelope on the wildlife crossing appeared at the same time. What a precise and decisive moment in the author's lens! So the photo was later selected as one of CCTV's top ten most influential pictures in 2006, and the author also won numerous awards... But the day before yesterday, I suddenly discovered that there was a line of ten marks at the bottom of the picture. Obvious line..." On February 12, a post titled "Liu Weiqiang's award-winning Tibetan antelope photo is suspected to be fake" appeared on the world's largest Chinese photography website "Seying Wuji".

Soon, the post attracted tens of thousands of views, and some netizens even compared Liu Weiqiang to "Tiger Zhou". Could it be that this award-winning photo is really photoshopped? Netizens joked that "Zhou Laohu" was in a turmoil and the truth was false; "Liu Lingyang" went out of the world and the truth came out.

Is the photo "Ten Difficulties in the Life of Tibetan Antelopes - Railway Pass", which was selected as one of the top ten news pictures of the year 2006-CCTV, a fake photo that has been photoshopped? In an interview with the media afterwards, Liu Weiqiang admitted that the photo was indeed a post-production composite. He said that the antelope photo and the train photo in the picture were indeed not taken at the same time, but were only taken at the same place and were combined together in order to pursue a "more appealing" picture.

"The antelope in the picture is real, and the bridge is real, but the moment is not so easy." Liu Weiqiang admitted frankly: The photo is indeed Photoshopped. Liu Weiqiang said that this photo was taken in 2006 and has been used as promotional posters and postcard materials for the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve. Later, after the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve provided the photo to China Environment News for publication, it was discovered by CCTV. It was selected as the "2006 CCTV News Memory of the Year News Photo" that year and won the bronze medal.