The Sacramento Bee has fired photographer Bryan Patrick was found to have combined multiple images for the paper.
Anyone who has done nature photography knows the frustration of getting two shots that are almost perfect — which could be combined together into one with everything you wanted. Now, most people won't act on that impulse, but it appears that Bryan Patrick at the Sacramento Bee did just that. He combined two shots of a snowy egret trying to steal a frog from a great egret in order to get the best of both images.