Nah. Nothing suspicious. The color values are off, and that could be because the camera color contrast is poor, the lighting is too grey (overcast), or the flag is faded from exposure. Sunlight will fade colors, especially blue and yellow. This can be seen all the time in storefront displays, where color posters have been on display for a long time and have become sun-bleached.
I think, as you say, the color balance is off. Prolly because there is so much white (snow) in the picture. White photography is very hard to do - it requires at least two F-stops of what would normally be considered over-exposure, from an automatic setting. One has to basically override the setting. Automatic cell-phone cameras don't do extreme stuff..
So the spots of color can look washed out, as the colors register too low, because the camera is busy looking at 'all that light'.
Nah. Nothing suspicious. The color values are off, and that could be because the camera color contrast is poor, the lighting is too grey (overcast), or the flag is faded from exposure. Sunlight will fade colors, especially blue and yellow. This can be seen all the time in storefront displays, where color posters have been on display for a long time and have become sun-bleached.
I think, as you say, the color balance is off. Prolly because there is so much white (snow) in the picture. White photography is very hard to do - it requires at least two F-stops of what would normally be considered over-exposure, from an automatic setting. One has to basically override the setting. Automatic cell-phone cameras don't do extreme stuff..
So the spots of color can look washed out, as the colors register too low, because the camera is busy looking at 'all that light'.
I mean seems too convenient that it has a flag
Everybody has a flag over there.