15 Mind-Blowing Pics That Seem Photoshopped But Are Actually Real

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7. Icelandic River Looks Like An Optical Illusion

You can spend 20 minutes staring at this photo and still, you won’t be able to make your brain see anything but a Salvador Dali type of painting. The photographer is Andre Ermulaev and it was taken in Iceland. The Photoshop effect was achieved because the river was captured at the weirdest possible angle. In fact, Ermulaev has specialized in aerial images of rivers flowing through volcanoes in Iceland. According to him, Iceland is a true paradise for all photo lovers. “But what has become a real discovery for me“ Ermolaev says, “is the bird’s eye view of rivers flowing along the black volcano sand. This photo represents the mouth of a river falling into the ocean. A little bit upstream there is a yellow-colored brook flowing into the river, but yellow currents fail to mix with the main water flow.”

6. This Fluffy Ball Is Actually A… Rabbit

What you see is not a picture of an animal that’s been Photoshopped so that it would look like a freak of nature! This is a one-hundred percent genuine Angora rabbit – the breed from which the soft and very expensive wool is harvested. Now you understand why it comes so costly. These rabbits are believed to originate from Turkey. The story goes back to the 18th century. Some French sailors were sightseeing around the Turkish port of Angora when they spotted some local women wearing very beautiful shawls. When they found out what the shawls were made of, they made sure to take some Angora rabbits with them back to France. Aside from their commercial use, the rabbits were domesticated, and became favorite pets of French royalty.

5. Art Work Brightens The Interior Of An Abandoned Building

This French artist and photographer is called The Grandfather of single-perspective installations. The guy has been creating his painted perspective installations in soon-to-be demolished buildings since the 1980s. When he selects a site, George Rousse creates a unique angular perspective, that when photographed compels the viewer to question their own senses and their understanding of space, in general. Rousse says that the convergence of these abandoned places goes beyond a visual game. “Like a hall of mirrors, it questions the role of photography as a faithful reproduction of reality, it probes the distances between perception and reality, between imaginary and concrete.”

The picture in question shows one of his works created in Rüsselsheim, Germany.

4. The Melting Building Mural In Paris

The Hausmannian building on George V Avenue in Paris is called ‘the melting building.’ But of course there is nothing wrong with the building itself and it’s completely safe to be inside of it. In fact, it is a mural, and the optical illusion is referred to as trompe l’oeil, or tricking the eye. The artist behind this amazing mural is John Pugh, who has been in the tricking-the-eye business for more than 30 years. “People take delight in being visually tricked, “ he says. “ With a clear intention to create a public art attraction, I strive to design a mural in a way that is atypical, and involves thinking out of the box.” The melting house is, in fact, one of the many Hausmannian buildings around central Paris. They are so called by the name of George-Eugene Hausmann, who directed a public renovation program commissioned by Napoleon III between 1853 and 1870. The renovation included the demolition of the medieval, highly unhealthy neighborhoods, and the construction of new avenues, sewers, fountains, etc.

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