This image has been widely shared. It has appeared on my Facebook wall after a recent event in Australia where a sacred tree was chopped down to make way for a new road. It was offered as an example of how it could have been preserved. (For clarity: no one is saying this is an Australian scene. I am just showing that it was presented to me as real.)

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> [![Image of straight road in rural area that takes a curved detour around a solitary tree](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ANAnh.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ANAnh.jpg)
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I found hundreds and hundreds of shares on Google, but here are some examples:

* [ReckonTalk](https://www.reckontalk.com/trust-me-i-am-engineer-14-photos-shows-amazing-examples-of-peoples-respect-to-nature/)
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/scitechnature9/status/1304770583993950208)

This looks completely fake to me. The lack of road signs and fences, and the likelihood of a driver wiping out that tree, all make me suspect that this is a digital artwork being represented as a photograph.

Is this an authentic photo?