PIL Image.size returns the opposite width/height

Question

Using PIL to determine width and height of images

On a specific image (luckily only this one - but it is troubling) the width/height returning from image.size is the opposite. The image:
http://storage.googleapis.com/cookila-533ebf752b9d1f7c1e8b4db3/IMG_0004.JPG

The code:

from PIL import Image
import urllib, cStringIO

file = cStringIO.StringIO(urllib.urlopen('http://storage.googleapis.com/cookila-533ebf752b9d1f7c1e8b4db3/IMG_0004.JPG').read())
im=Image.open(file)
print im.size

The result is - (2592, 1936)
should be the other way around

Answer 1

The reason for this is that this image has Exif Orientation metadata associated with it that will cause applications that respect that property to rotate it:

# identify -verbose IMG_0004.JPG | grep Orientation
  Orientation: RightTop
    exif:Orientation: 6

Compare with a regular image:

# identify -verbose iceland_pano.jpg | grep Orientation
  Orientation: TopLeft
    exif:Orientation: 1

So the image dimensions are actually landscape (more wide than high), but it will get rotated on display by browsers, image viewers etc.

Answer 2

A: This is a standard state.

Numpy arrays carry images ( from OpenCV2 ) with another convention once inspected by data.shape, so does the PIL/Pillow Image.size

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print data.shape gives (1624, 3856) and print im.size gives (3856, 1624)