“Prepare to Question Reality: Explore These Stunning Photos That Play Tricks on Your Mind!”
Have A Cuppa Tea
Wow, what on earth is the liquid in this teacup? It’s certainly not ordinary tea, is it? Well, it actually is just a regular cup of joe. It just has one difference: an amazing reflection. Reddit user deathbypolkadots shared the photo on the site and captioned it, “the tapestry above my bed made a pretty sweet reflection in my coffee this morning.” We have to agree – that is a pretty sweet reflection. And we’re more than a little jealous of that magical tapestry. All we have to look up at here are plain white ceilings that don’t make our coffee look pretty.
Hausmannian Building In Paris
Upon first glance, viewers might think they’re viewing a building through a warped or distorted reflection. Not so! The trees and other images in the photo are the giveaways that the scene is real. This is the Hausmannian Building, located on Georges V Avenue in Paris, France. It’s actually a mural, printed onto canvas, in the “trompe l’oeil” style. Trompe l’oeil art is paint or photography that creates the illusion that items are actually in three dimensions. This facade was created as the building behind it was being reconstructed. What an imaginative way to disguise the mess of a building under construction.
The World’s Largest SUV
This is another excellent example of forced perspective photography. The Pinterest user who shared the picture, Erik van Veen, wrote, “Who needs Photoshop when you have 10 billion tons and 10,582 km of salt! Me messing about on the Salar De Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world.” He also wrote that this particular salt flat (in the Andes in southwest Bolivia) formed about 40,000 years ago when a salt lake dried up. We love all these examples of humans interacting with nature to create seemingly impossible images.
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