MetArt – Title unknown {remixed} (200X)

Here’s the original iteration of the above image:

The earliest search engine cached version of the image I found is from late 2007–specifically: a Flickr user named K. Pharran. (Looking through the 32 images in that account suggests the owner was posting other people’s work and presenting it as his own. The variance in style between the images is far too disparate to be from a single source.)

Several hits in the Google search came back with mentions of MetArt and the fact that there is such a hi-res version of the image still floating around out there in correlation with the earliest posting does a good bit of suggestion that they’re likely the source.

What I wanted to point out is that the fact that there is a hi res version of the image available means that there’s a lot more room available as far as color correction. (The original would’ve likely been considered artfully moody in the mid-aughts but in the late 10s, our expectations regarding what pictures made underwater look like, the remix is demonstrable clearer, more legible and captivating image.)