Nothing photo shopped, at least that I know of. That first picture was taken at the Miss Madison boat shop prior to the canard being moved forward and after the tiplets were removed so, adding the dark green visible on the sponson transoms, that either had to be during the winter of 95-96 or during it's first few years as the Oberto. The color somewhat matches the green from the Jasper paint scheme used in 1995 and is too dark to have been used with the DeWalt sponsorship after that. It could be Oberto green as well but I think it's a bit dark for that too. Since the boat was painted white in 1994 when it was the Powerball/Miss Madison, that pretty much narrows it down to after the 1995 season or during the winters between the 2000 and 2003 seasons as the canard was moved to the front of the sponsons and the nose shortened for clearance prior to the 2003 season . I found that shot, years ago, on the former Miss Madison website. Many of the pictures that used to be available on that site are gone as they weren't transferred when a new webmaster set up a new site over a decade ago.
The second shot, as stated above, was taken in Tukwila Washington between the Tri-Cities and Seattle races. Unfortunately, the boat was turned in such a way that, even with the heavy overcast, my camera's light meter was fooled into under exposing the shot. It is still fairly clear as to the details, the colors are just darker than they should be.
