I have moved this topic to this
"So-called Expert's opinions" board because Marvin is publicly providing claims of his scientific abilities:
I have spent most of my adult life working in R&D (in an R&D Lab). I have written white papers and I have been published in a major trade journal. I believe I have some concept of what a scientific investigation isâ?¦ or I would not be able to collect a paycheck.
OK, so the moving leaves episode is solved in the previous posts, the leaves did move in the Ty photos despite Marvin's and a few others claims that they did not. That aspect of the case is closed. Maybe someone can point me to where Marvin retracted that claim, I could not find it.
Then, from
OMF which has been uncontrollably mobbed by angry drone-hoax believers on many ocassions, a claim is made that the labelling of scanned photos AA to LL is the exact sequence of the photos. No one ever said that these photos are represented in any sequence. The claim made by LMH was that photographs where mailed from Ty to her, then she scanned them in and posted them on her website.
Then Marvin continues
his older claim that the Drone did not change size between Ty photos KK-LL. Many before me have explained this to Marvin, here is my summary: The answer is found in science, specifically geometry and
trigonometry. Some points about photos and perspective when a camera moves toward/away from objects:
- Objects close to the camera change size the most
- Objects furthest from the camera change size the least
This graphic sums up the mathematics involved in analyzing photos when the camera moves closer/further from objects:

We all make mistakes once in a while. Marvin needs to publicly retract any false conclusions.
It's not that I need to defend the drones, but I am appalled when I see claims of scientific abilities and hard conclusions (of hoax in this case) alongside the inability to scientifically analyse something.
Like the above, there are many apparent "inconsistencies" in photographs. I will try at my own pace to understand these.