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Photos that don't look real but are - thread 🧵

1. Cranberry harvest by Kristina Makeeva Image
2. The hills of Tuscany look like someone laid a blanket over them 📸 İlhan Eroğlu
3. Stairway to Heaven

This photo taken by Paul David depicts "Diminish and Ascend", a sculpture by David McCracken gracing the landscape of Bondi, Australia. Image
4. A colossal Iceberg drifts through Iceberg Alley, in Newfoundland, Canada 📸 Doreen Dalley
5. This is a real picture taken by photographer Keinichi Ohno.

In the top right corner a wall casts its reflection into the water below, creating a seamless division within the photograph. Image
6. When autumn is only at 50% downloaded for your forest 📸 Dan Tivadar
7. Francesco Saverio Paternostro's lens captures the ethereal beauty of a sea of fog, locally known as "lupa di mare," as it envelops the village of Rotondella, Italy. Image
8. Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia 📸 walerian walawski
9. Rainbow waterfall by Grant Thompson Image
10. A drone photo by photographer Julian Stratenschulte of trees knocked down after a storm Image
11. Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, the largest hot spring in the US 📸 Yann Arthus-Bertrand
12. Stephen Dunn took this incredible photograph of a humid spider web caught by the cameras flash Image
13. 3D Grass Globe at Paris City Hall 📸 https://imgflip.com/i/44hivw
14. It’s not a stuck cruise ship, it's resort hotel in South Korea 📸 Malgoyadooya
15. Chinese fishermen rowing through a river filled with algae 📸 Jianan Yu
16. An aerial shot taken by Oscar Ruiz of a housing development in Mexico City Image
17. Rainbow Mountains, Peru 📸 LakotaMan1
18. Nathen Erickson captured this striking image of a green sky above Sioux Falls, South Dakota Image
19. The "Flying boats" in Castro Marina by Francesco Giannotta Image
20. This photo of cemetery looks like 2 images stitched together 📸 ltearth
21. Wheat field in Puglia, a 1978 photo by Franco Fontana Image
22. Trees pruned to appear in perfect straight lines 📸 AthensFinest
23. Dalíesque scaffolding shrouds concealing the renovation of the Hausmannian Building on Georges V Avenue in Paris 📸 https://9gag.com/gag/aYoy6Xm
24. Inside a guitar 📸 simonbook
25. Cat God by Amandahys7 Image
26. Asperatus Clouds in Harrodsburg, Kentucky 📸 Johannah McKinney Cheek
27. Aerial photo of Burning Man that looks like a Galaxy Image
28. Cathedral, Mountain, Moon

The perfect alignment between the Basilica of Superga, Monviso, and the Moon by Valerio Minato. Image
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