I don't want to implicate any individual for the line above and I suspect it may have been taken out of context , but
That was the caption beneath a picture published locally (in a newspaper) quoting the photographer.

Your thoughts /reactions?

I'd imagine that with photoshop's bad press to the general public , many people would be thinking 'good on you!'
As a photographer, my personal reaction was a mixture of and

The image by the way, was a good one of a local icon