Photographic technology helps us capture moments that have been stopped in time, which you can then examine in depth and discover amazing things. The different effects of angles, reflections, and lighting make us sometimes see things that we would not have noticed before and which may have not really existed - examples of this can be seen in the next 19 pictures. Each will cause you to linger in front of it for a few seconds trying to figure out what it is that’s really going on in them, and once you understand, you’ll find out how easily your eyes and brain can fool you.
Miniature dinosaurs? No – just lemurs with their tails up!
The sun seems to be giving him a massage
The importance of shutter speed
What may seem like a sea is nothing but a plain plastic bag
The longest hand in the world
Could this cat have 18 souls?
What are those black dots on the snowy trees? These are thousands of crows!
A window in an abandoned building that looks like a framed picture
When the setting sunset reflects on this building it looks like it’s on fire!
The poor dog woke up too late after being caught in the rain...
Lettuce that wanted to be a Fir
If you thought that this is a leaf, this insect's camouflage works well
These hands seem to be holding a picture in front of the camera, but they aren’t….
The day monkeys get this big, we’ll abandon the outdoors
Man came from monkeys
The squirrel took the cats spot
A metropolitan city with a wealth of skyscrapers? No, it's just a cemetery
This huge rock plans to sail all over the world
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