Scot>Maybe the "original" wasn't from the person who actually took the photo.
I don't take into consideration all "maybe" - it's not even a question to discuss -"maybe", "may", "possible", "perhaps", etc. If you have exact graphic materials - you should work with them without any "maybe".
>Your "original" may have come from a newsgroup which came from a forum which came from an email which...
Not mine. These pictures were posted here (at BEA) by someone, who personnaly did them - this person spoke about this. But I wrote about it - check closely my previous posts.
>Since there's no text in the photo, you can't tell by inspection if the photo was flipped.
I don't understand the reason of this ... sentence. I can compare two pictures and to see the differences among pictured highly detailed objects. And I can say if one picture was fliped. Certainly, I can't say, what exact picture was fliped - but it's not a question in our case.
>Only if YOU took the photo could you know this.
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>"It"? What am I supposed to see? Please be specific. I mean, do left handed people instinctively place their dominant hand on top of a plastic bag while riding in convertibles in New Orleans Marti-Gras parades?
"...instinctively place their dominant hand on top..."
Right handers usually place their left hand on top ("hand-shield position") and right hand under left hand ("attacking hand position"). The situation is inverse for left-handers - right hand is on top. However, there are some other small traces on the pictures, manifesting that this woman is left-hander.
For example, the skin of "active hand" (in our case - of left hand) is always less degradated, than the skin of "passive hand". Certainly, it's manifested by more considerable varicose veins phlebetis presence on right hand on the picture.
However, there are some other signs, that MW is left-hander.