Fake foliage photos change vistors’ expectations in Vermont [Video]

Peak foliage is in full swing right now, and as millions of visitors come to our region ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, expectations of what the leaves look like can sometimes be unrealistic, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of heavily edited and sometimes fake pictures you see online.“I was expecting a Bob Ross painting brought to life. I have my husband going crazy, going, ‘Why doesn’t it look exactly like this?’” said Susan Getz, visiting from New York City.A quick online search of “Vermont foliage” produces thousands of heavily edited, and sometimes fake, pictures created with artificial intelligence that only a local can tell apart from the real thing.“It’s not natural. Other than a sign here and there, I don’t heavily edit my photos at all,” said photographer Drew Bressel. Bressel has been snapping scenery of her home state of Vermont for 20 years and gets upset seeing some …