Try Not To Laugh At These Hilarious Photos That Were Captured At Just The Right Moment

Kylene Loucks | November 7, 2024 1:00 am

People are really skeptical about the pictures they see on the internet. Everyone thinks that every picture that looks remotely out of the norm is photoshopped, and it may be that most of the time that's true.

But, sometimes, it isn't photoshopped, and it's just the amazing wonders of nature or a trick of the light. Keep reading to learn more.

Is That A Sticker?

a lizard looks photishopped
Photo Credit: Reddit / Coolman_Express
Photo Credit: Reddit / Coolman_Express

Even though it looks like that lizard is a poorly placed social media sticker, it's actually sitting right there on that guy's arm.

It just looks that way because of the light from a lamp.

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Are We In The Lord Of The Rings?

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the reflection of the window looks like its on fire
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Photo Credit: Reddit / embracingfit
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The way the setting sun is coming through the glass on this window is making it look a lot like an evil eye from everyone's favorite fantasy movie.

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Do you think these people should be worried?

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Nice Remote...

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a remote next to a cat looks fake
Photo Credit: Reddit / Knorkebork
Photo Credit: Reddit / Knorkebork
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The white outline on that remote against the pattern on the black and red bedspread makes it look like it was placed there by Photoshop, but it's just a trick of the eye.

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I still don't trust it.

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Corkscrew Clouds

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clouds that look like corkscrews
Photo Credit: Reddit / saxman_nh
Photo Credit: Reddit / saxman_nh
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When it comes to nature, we can't really be surprised when it does something we crazy we weren't expecting or doesn't look real.

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It is the original creator of all things, after all.

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Is That A Castle In My Coffee?

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light reflected in coffee looks like a castle
Photo Credit: Reddit / MadnessDreamer
Photo Credit: Reddit / MadnessDreamer
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The way that the lights in this coffee shop are shinning on the black coffee make it look like there is a tiny castle floating in the middle of their drink.

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It would probably be made of sugar.

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Mirrors Are Always Tricky

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a couch looks different colors in the reflection
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Photo Credit: Reddit / gwilar
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The colors look reversed in the reflection, but we know that's just a trick of the mirror giving us a hard time.

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Sometimes, it can be hard to wrap our brains around it.

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It's Like All The Seasons

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plants look perfectly gradient
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Photo Credit: Reddit / sesor33
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The leaves on this plant perfectly fade from summer green to end of fall red.

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You could photoshop something like that, but isn't it so much more impressive that nature did that?

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A Once In A Lifetime Shot

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rainbow over the setting sun
Photo Credit: Reddit / nimo4749
Photo Credit: Reddit / nimo4749
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This picture doesn't even look like it's from Earth!

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The rainbow over the setting sun is making it look like a scene from Star Wars, but that's just the desert for you.

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Lots Of Polka Dots

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a cat with rainbow polka dots on them
Photo Credit: Reddit / drewsoulman
Photo Credit: Reddit / drewsoulman
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This kitty looks like they belong in the middle of a Dr. Seuss story with their rainbow polka dots.

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But it's just the reflections from a stained glass charm hanging in the window.

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Is That A Kitty?

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paint in a can looks like a cat
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Sezer079
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Paint before it's mixed is always full of lots of surprises.

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It's easy to forget that the paint colors don't just come already mixed and actually require a couple of different colors and a good shake.

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It Almost Looks Fake

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the view through a bridge looks like four different scenes
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Photo Credit: Reddit / youcancallmealsdkg
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But it's just a clever picture taken through the slats of a bridge.

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It just so happens to divide the picture up in a way that looks like four smaller pictures.

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Ah Yes, The Snow

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snow looks like a blanket on a car
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Photo Credit: Reddit / SirRealist
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The snow coming off this car looks just like a blanket that's sliding off the couch.

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It's hard to know if you should trust what you see when it comes to snow.

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What A Beautiful Rainbow

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trees look like they are in rainbow water
Photo Credit: Reddit / brentenross
Photo Credit: Reddit / brentenross
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The way the light is coming through these trees and filtering onto the swamp water below looks like a beautiful pastel rainbow. Imagine coming across that on your hike?

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What an amazing sight.

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Anyone Else Kind Of Hungry?

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snow on a table looks like pasta
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Photo Credit: Reddit / dosoc
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The way this snow is resting on this table makes it look like one big ravioli.

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I don't know about you, but I would I could eat that any day.

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That's One Clean Car

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a car looks like a mirror when wet
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Tittzo
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This black car got the cleaning of a lifetime, and now it makes a perfect mirror reflecting its surroundings.

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You might even miss it if you didn't know it was there.

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Isn't That A Cool Trick?

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a fork's shadow looks like a criss cross
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The combination of the light from overhead and the way the fork is resting on the plate makes that cool checkered pattern on the table.

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Bet they couldn't do that again on purpose.

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Those Are Some Cool Cups

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cups that look like they have holes in them
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Even though it looks like the tea should be spilling out of these cups everywhere, they're actually safe and leak-proof.

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There is a thin wall of glass surrounding the holes.

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Being One With Nature

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water bottle with a reflection that looks like the northern lights
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The way the light is filtering through this full water bottle makes it look like we are seeing the northern lights trapped in a bottle.

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The trees at the bottom really finish the look.

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Hold On!

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keys look like a person holding on
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Mikaotics
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The shadow of the keys on the door looks like a little person holding on for dear life, trying to figure out a way to get out of this crazy predicament they've found themselves in.

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I'm just impressed this person noticed this in the first place.

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Where Did The Cow Go?

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cow looks like it doesn't have a body
Photo Credit: Reddit / sixfeetunder98
Photo Credit: Reddit / sixfeetunder98
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Angles are everything. Case in point: this cow that looks like it's missing a body. It's just hidden behind his adorable, huge head.

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Amazing what a different perspective can do.

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Someone Was In A Hurry

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skid marks look 3D
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Photo Credit: Reddit / Zevyn
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Whoever left these acceleration marks was in such a hurry that they probably didn't stop to notice the cool 3D art they made with their car's tires.

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That's too bad!

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This Is Kind Of Creepy

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inside of a watermelon has an interesting design
Photo Credit: Reddit / ah-tow-wah
Photo Credit: Reddit / ah-tow-wah
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This watermelon has a neat pattern inside of it, and it's not like anything I've seen before.

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Apparently, it means that this seedless watermelon was way overripe and had gone bad.

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What A Neat Little Berry

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a berry that looks like a skull
Photo Credit: Reddit / Fawlkz
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This berry is like a couple of other things in the natural world that look suspiciously like skulls when they dry out.

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You may think it's an editing trick, but it's very real.

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What A Clear Sky

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rain on the window looks like space
Photo Credit: Reddit / norfo
Photo Credit: Reddit / norfo
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Even though this looks like a clear view of the night sky, it's actually a picture taken from inside someone's house of the rain on their window.

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The bright light is a street lamp.

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OK, This Has To Be Fake

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a square looking cloud
Photo Credit: Reddit / Airspeed12
Photo Credit: Reddit / Airspeed12
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It actually isn't! It's rare, but this square cloud formation is totally legit. It marks the place where two air masses are meeting and pushing against one another.

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Isn't that neat?

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It's Sort Of Calming

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street lights perfectly line up
Photo Credit: Reddit / KingLeo00010
Photo Credit: Reddit / KingLeo00010
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The matching orange from the lights and the moon is a super nice touch, but what really steals the show is how beautifully these street lamps line up from the angle the picture is being taken.

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I'd be so mesmerized driving by (probably not a good thing).

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Who Else Wants One?

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person made a pinhole camera to watch the sun set
Photo Credit: Reddit / licenseles
Photo Credit: Reddit / licenseles
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OK, this does totally look photoshopped, but it isn't.

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This person made a huge pinhole camera using their window so they could watch the sunset from their room while lying down.

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This Looks Like A Collage

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one picture that looks like many different ones put together
Photo Credit: Reddit / chubbybogger
Photo Credit: Reddit / chubbybogger
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But it isn't! This was taken from someone looking out over the water from their balcony, and it just so happened that their neighbor's balcony lined up perfectly with their view.

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Shucks, I really hoped that was a big plant and a small boat.

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Should We Be Worried?

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a guy wearing a hoodie looks like he has no head
Photo Credit: Reddit / zaferemre
Photo Credit: Reddit / zaferemre
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This guy riding the bus probably gave some people quite a fright!

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He has his hood pulled up over his face, but against the windows it makes him look like he is missing his head.

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Invasion Of The Giant Dogs

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a dog in a doll house
Photo Credit: Reddit / Bucket_of_nuggets
Photo Credit: Reddit / Bucket_of_nuggets
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Being invaded by giant dogs probably wouldn't be that bad, would it?

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This is actually just a picture of a nosey dog sticking its head in a dollhouse to say hi.

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Only A Cat

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a cat looking down through someone's stairs
Photo Credit: Reddit / Raptors_McFlaptors
Photo Credit: Reddit / Raptors_McFlaptors
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It does look like there is something trippy going on with the stairs here, but it's just because they have stairs that don't have a back on them.

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The kitty is just peaking out to say hi.

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Try Refreshing The Page

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a plane makes it look like the sky is missing pixels
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This is actually a picture of a B2 Bomber, but the way that it's shaped and the way it's sitting in the sky here makes it look like there are some pixels missing.

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Someone clearly forgot to load the simulation.

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That's Almost Hard To Look At

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fake grass looks photoshopped
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Photo Credit: Reddit / kennyheard
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This fake grass may look like it's right out of a video game, but it's real and it's there.

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The turn just looks strange and super green next to the grey tiles.

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That's Quite The Tilt

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a house looks crooked because of the hills
Photo Credit: Reddit / TacoPvP
Photo Credit: Reddit / TacoPvP
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Leave it to San Francisco to make it look like some of the houses are totally crooked like this.

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Of course, they aren't and it's just the angle of the person standing in relation to the hill.

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Antarctica Or The Inside Of A Camry?

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Windshield on vehicle frozen looks like scenic landscape
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Photo Credit: Liamers / Reddit
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The windshield on this person's vehicle froze in a strikingly beautiful way.

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The ice shards and tiny dashboard fixtures make this look like a vast Arctic landscape picture instead of the inside of someone's car.

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Where Are His Legs?

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Man sitting at charging station on his phone with his backpack beside him creating optical illusion
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It looks like someone went ahead and photoshopped the guy on the right's legs out from under him.

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In reality, he's not even a person but a backpack and a coincidentally placed hat.

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Just Out For An Incognito Rip

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Person snowboarding down hill matching the snow and tree line
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When this person put on their snow gear to hit the slopes, they had no idea they were accidentally creating the perfect winter camouflage.

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Their jacket blends into the tree line and it sort of looks like a pair of legs going for a ride.

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Your Tree Is Buffering

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Eastern red bud tree with changing leaves looks pixelated
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This Eastern Redbud tree is in the process of changing colors, but it makes the tree look like it's out of focus.

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Someone needs to adjust the pixels on this tree.

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Centaurs Are Real?

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Women pose for photo, dog in back ground makes woman look like centaur in confusing perspective
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This woman is proving that centaurs are not as few and far between as you might think.

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With a large enough dog and a properly placed camera, you too can centaur yourself for a pic.

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The Library Looks Different Here

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Reflection of bookshelf in window makes it look like there is a giant shelf outside in optical illusion
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The reflection of a bookcase in this person's large window is casting an odd illusion of a gigantic bookcase on the far side of the parking lot.

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You would need a crane to check out those books.

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This Tower Is Trippy On A Good Day

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Building with reflective mirror glass blends into the sky on a sunny day
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This towering skyscraper appears to disappear right into the cloudy blue sky around it.

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The illusion is a trick of the reflective glass panels used in the all-glass building's exterior.

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An Identified Standing Object (The Opposite Of A UFO)

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Tottenham Hotspur's football stadium looks like a flying saucer from a distance
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Tottenham Hotspur's football (aka soccer) stadium in England looks like a flying saucer from a distance in the gloomy weather.

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It would be startling to look out the window and think the extraterrestrials chose your hometown to make contact.

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Little Dude Refuses To Be Excluded

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Small Australian shepherd puppy peeking out from behind door
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This curious Australian shepherd puppy has weaseled its way through a crack in the door.

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It looks a lot more like the pup is somehow being swallowed by the wall.

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Horses On The Fence

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Horses in distance look like they are miniature on fence post because of perspective
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At first glance, it looks like these are miniature figurine horses resting on a fence.

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In reality, they are full-sized very real horses wandering around in a distant pasture.

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The Water Line Is Precise

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Tide line on rocks has created a color gradient naturally
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This picture looks like a photo editor has been used to adjust the color gradient, but it's all-natural.

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The sharp lines on the boulders are created by the tide rising and lowering over hundreds of years.

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Sometimes The Dog Likes The Couch...

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Dog lying outside reflects in glass making it look like dog is on couch
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What looks like a picture of a living room couch is more confusing the longer you look at it.

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In the reflection on the patio door, a dog sits on the couch, but inside, the couch is empty. The dog is on the patio and visible through the open glass which is reflecting the couch.