I think this pic might be legit, it's just taken in a way that makes branch looks massive, little photography tricks.. taken from a low angle facing up, also taken pretty close to him. When you take a pic of something up close the parts that are closer to the lens tend to dwarf the parts that are further away, they used a similar kind of trick to shoot LOTR to make Gandalf look 8 feet tall, I forgot what it was called, I think forced perspective or something... but anyhow , that's why his head looks so small compared to the camera side of his body.