Big cat really quite small

It's odd how you can stand beside the hull of a big cat in dry dock and it 
towers over you ...yet when it's in the water surrounded by the really
'big 
boys' toys... It can look so small...
http://www.douglasjames.com.au/previews/the_cat.htm

Interesting exercise in digital imagery. Shot with a 40D Canon and 17 - 85

kit lens. DxO optix pro software removed the generous CA this lens
produces 
and corrected the other image anomolies you'd expect for a cheap lens
(cheap 
as in $600???). What it couldn't do is take away the distint blue colour 
cast in the shadows when the shot is otherwise correctly white balanced. 
Nikon's don't do that incidentally. I had to use Photoshop to do it and
even 
then, it's not a quick exercise.

As far back as the 10D I can remember this happening. Canon might have 
changed their models but they havent altered their stripes !