Laguna If you would like to see the full size original click http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/10097479965_445c872947_o.jpg you can also click on the result in your browser to zoom into the image. I will post a few more old shots, this was from 2007, I was able to improve it a lot because of new facilities in Adobe Lightroom 5, didn't consider it good enough before. By the way sorry about the thumbnail that was a mistake but even I can't remove it, use my link above Who says the Philippines is a dump I know I do sometimes but it has extraordinary beauty as well.
As far as I know jpg's can't have active content The images are on Flickr I am pretty sure they are safe mate
Any image or file containing text can hold secret content via Steganography in theory you could hide data in an executable binary as well if you patched all the addresses so the exe still worked. that applies to everything computable or writeable