That's yet another Kai Krause story.

I was just visiting Byteburg with a friend who was a big Krause/KPT/Bryce etc. fan and had told his partner about him, a few years before.

She was working as a journalist for German Max magazine at the time AFAIR. So she convinced her editor and they did a piece on Kai.

This friend and her flew to California and interviewed Kai in his villa. Max also booked a super hip local photographer to shoot him.

Now the photographer brought some perspex sheets or the like to do a setup where Kai would walk 'like Jesus' over the surface of his pool.

Kai told the guy he should do it in Photoshop instead, no setup required, no one getting wet. The photographer said it wouldn't be the same and one could always tell.

To which Kai replied that he could show him how and you wouldn't be able to tell.

This led to a discussion and the photographer loosing it and ultimately leaving in anger (he likely thought he was just shooting some unknown C-level celebrity geek but Kai was quite famous at the time).

So the shoot went sideways because of Kai having offered his superior Photoshop-Fu. :P

AFAIR my friend himself took the pictures that were ultimately used for the article. But I may misremember.

Kai and him became friends over that interview and that's how we ended up at Kai's castle, a year or so after.

In any case, months later, when the photographer found out whom he had been booked to shoot, he wanted to re-negotiate his compensation after the fact with Max magazine. They refused ofc. Go figure.