Changing the rules

I would say, no. If it is, it's good. The shadows/sun direction seem true and the edges look clean. Nice that the full-size image is there to check it against. It looks like the photographer focused on the boys--pretty much the rest is in de-focus in the background. The only thing that might suggest it is the boy in the red trunks--his extended arm and leg look like their edges are a bit funny but that could just be sharpening halo.

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/A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to their country for an amount of "up to and including my life"./
(...from the generation that still uses capital letters and punctuation...)