Uhm, real or hand-edited? I see no head.
Flamingoes would often curl up into a ball to keep warm.
Turing test for images? :-P
He should have been disqualified. The photo contest was specifically for AI generated images.
Categories on competitions exist, and if you enter something outside of that category, it should be disqualified.
What is the point then? (Sorry if it’s explained in the linked article, I don’t have time to read that rn, maybe later.)
The point the photographer claims they were making is that real is better than AI and creatives are better than programs.