Some time ago I have received these 3 photos. It took me a day or two before I even figured what is so special about them. As you see, all three represent old architecture. But wait, something strange is going on. Are all those pillars where they normally should be? How about the horizontal post they hold? Can you spot the illusion in each photo? They have much to do with impossible objects. I’m not positively absolutely sure, but these images may have been manipulated digitally. What is your impression? Are we talking about some exotic shooting angle, or simply Photoshop job? You tell me…
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Cool first comment! The pictures are inturesting, but a little boring. In the first one the top bar is not strate. In the sevond one the two posts do not line up. And, in the third one, well it looks crooked.
dont get last one
the bottom 2 are photoshopped, Its very obvious. however the first may be an optical illusion or it may be photoshopped
The architects and builders back then had a much higher standard of workmanship than the builders these days. This would never of happened a 150+ years ago.
Thus why historical buildings can last 1000’s of years and todays modern building has a lifepsam of about 50 years.
first comment?
personally i think these are photoshopped
The second one is definite photoshop. The shadows are being cast from the Sun on the right, so there should be a shadow from the pillars on the sidewalk, but there is no shadow.
First? Probably not.
I love them!
First Comment ? O.o
I’d say Photochopped… the second one for sure is. the other two could be either i suppose but i suspect all three are photoshoped
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I dont see it.
Can some one PLEASE tell me what is so special about these buildings?
*ahem* first comment possibly
thats cool… but i agree look like its been digitally altered…. 1st?
The second one kinda looked photoshop edited…
It looks like a nice piece of photo shop to me.
MB.
The first was pretty cool actually. The second really looked photoshoped, but the third might be real. Probably not, but it looks possible…iunno. anyway, cool as always.
Good pictures, but they are photoshopped, if you look closely around the anomolies, you can see slightly blurred edges
yea i think im first comment…
but i dont really get these
That’s so cool. I like the last one the most.
the second one is a giveaway that is been photoshopped..
yeah, well… I saw better in the past !!
These are lame. 1st one looks longer, but its just thicker.
Second one…without a doubt photoshopped.
As far as the last one, i really don’t notice anything special on it.
Come on man, I check your site every day, but recently, it’s been going downhill. Go back to basics here, and stay away from these kind of lame viewer submissions.
It surprises me when you say things like “It took me a day or two before I even figured what is so special about them.” :P! Being the owner of this site and all ;) heh… these are pretty cool, they don’t have an extreme waow effect though i guess… makes me think they’ve been digitally altered maybe, especially with the lack of shadow detail like on the second one those first two pillars look like the same pillar but altered slightly – i could indeed be wrong though, just saying.
Well the first one doesnt look photoshopped, But the second does.
The third one doesnt really look impossible to me.. :/
i don’t see it! i only see it in the second photo…i think.
Photoshopped.
i spotted them all!!!!
am i first????
wow
dont get it at all (1st?)
Great! As an architect, I really enjoy these.
1) it looks like it’s upside or something :S
2)the one next to the arch on the right side is connected to the little ‘wall’ on the floor (best way to describe it) while all the others are in front of it
3)all the lines are straight except the bottom half which looks wonky
hope I helped!
i dont see anything in the first one, the other two are pretty cool though
I don’t think that 1 and 3 are fotoshopped bud the second one has to.
I don’t see anything wrong with the first one it seems to be just correctly
Awful
Second one is clearly photoshoped, you can see how the bases of the columns are blurred.
1st? Probably not..
first two are manipulated I think, about the last on I’m not so sure. I’m not even convinced it’s an impossible object. It’s rather a picture from an obscuring angle.
Love your site, keep it up!!
im not fully decided on the first and last ones but the second one is obviously done on computer because the first three look like they r going into the fotpath but the last three are no and if it was some angle thing those ones would be going into the footpath as well
for those who cant see the differences
1. the horizontal block does not line up even though the pillars are even
2. the pillars are longer and look as if they are going into the footpath
3.the left side of the building is is even but the right side goes diagnol
very nice,the illusion(if it is not photoshopped which I believe not)
is only possible from a certain side of view as with most impossible objects.the ancient/old style structures combined with the impossible object illusion makes it even more interesting.
OMG, these are so photoshopped its not even funny!! you can tell in the last one that the top two windows have been cloned to make the building look ’strange’! I’m an estate agent and i use similar tools to remove other agents boards from our property pictures!
i’m actually quite disapointed at this entry, i must be really sad!
merry xmas all! xx
I get it but these are sligtly boring…….definitely edited, quite stupid as its meant to be an optical illusion whereas these are possible but impractical and heavily edited :(
If you look at the second one you can see that the first 3 pillars look extremely different than the last four so I say photo shop…
:0 phoootoooshopppeddd !!!
they are mainly just crooked in some places, e.g. the pillars in the 2nd and 3rd pic and in the first pic to the left, the bar on top is smaller than the rest goign outwards…
really bored with these sort of illusions.
hey the second one is in antigua guatemala!
the problem with the 3rd one is the angles of the walls. at the top the corner is a right angle, at the bottom it looks obtuse, more like 120 degrees, which wouldn’t be possible.
i think these are real buildings….. not photo shopped.
SPOILER
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Or rather, two spoilers and an opinion…
1) The base of the block spanning the middle gap has been photoshopped down/away from the viewer. It appears to be sitting towards the back of the square section on the top of the columns, whereas the equivalent blocks to the right and left are sitting at the front and middle of the square.
2) The bases of the first three columns have been extruded downwards across the pavement.
3) Doesn’t look impossible to me, there’s just no reason to build wonkily like this :¬)
i think the last picture was photoshopped…..it was neatly cropped…