You people can sometimes be a real pain in the ass ;) I know sometimes there needs to be flaming and criticism, but at least give me props for approving even your negative comments (as long as they are in clean language). I made a mistake, you criticized, I listened to you and responded, deal closed. Let’s move on! :) Hehe, don’t take me too serious being mad at you, but take me somehow. Lol! Concerning the yesterday’s illusion, I like it fine, and if you don’t, well you should. Now let’s see what I prepared for today…
Loïs Levy sent me this photo of some Ghost Cars army. They are something like vampires, well not exactly – these Ghost Cars have reflection in mirror, but aren’t visible in real life. I think this makes them anti-matter vampires or something. Don’t know quite frankly. There is also possibility they are visible, but when you take photo of them they disappear, something like we used to see in Hollywood movies, when someone takes photo of a ghost. I don’t care much if you like this one (well I do actually), but in my opinion this one is awesome illusion, and isn’t as easy to solve. Can we do it together? Still friends? Enjoy!
This picture is photo shopped. The red carpet is a separate piece replacing the brick work and the cars… Nice clean work around the corners… Fun.
It’s painfully obvious that the cars are simply behind the person taking the picture, whose reflection is blocked out by the bars adjacent the door. So, this isn’t so much an optical illusion as it’s just a lame photo.
both of you are wrong. not photoshopped, and not what 2nd comment said (look at the floor relfection, it’s different)..
roof..? hint ;)
Surely these are just tinted glass doors….Not even a reflection, just whats on the other side of the glass, because the floor carries on. But why have some random glass doors anyway.
The cars are not even an illusion – you can read the number plates.
They are simply on the other side of a narrow building.
I think it isn’t a reflection, just looking through the glass. Look at the license plate of the car, they are not mirrored.
Also, at the rigth side of the glass you see that the ‘reflection’ wall is greater than the wall outside. And the bench in the ‘reflection’ is closer to the glass than the giant plant barge, but when you look before the glass, you see a plant barge at the right side, but no bench.
It was taken from the roof of the building
Yep, he’s right.
It’s a car dealership! Then again, why would there be painted pavement in a CAR DEALERSHIP. It’s a glass wall!!! Or a thin building!
could it also be that the camera is at an angle and the reflection is of cars on a roof of a building?
This blog is just great. I love it. (Just here to say that we’re still friends. :))
it seems to me that the person that took this photo was on the roof of a not so tall building, used a zoom lens and got that picture. see how the reflection of the floor has tiles all the way to the cars, but in front of the doors there are tiles, and then a red thing.. which seems to be the roof. and check the hole on that red thing, like a drain or something..
and that plant barge on the right side is not the same one that on the reflection, it just looks like it. you can also tell that the photographer was at a higher level because of the angle of the bottom part of the windows on top (the silver kind of ledge).
ha, i see now what amkes this photo interesting!
took me a while, ahd to read the posts :P
HEY you should disable Anonymous posts, n ban the google ID’s that piss around
The picture is taken from the inside of a building with an open-air courtyard. The person behind the camera is taking the photo from the courtyard looking through glass doors out to a parking lot. If you look real close, on the right of the picture you can see a reflection of the courtyard planter in the window “reflection”
I say the photographer carefully placed the camera on the bench seat so its reflection would be hidden by the door jam, and fired the shutter with the timer.
Do it all the time in the studio
Phil
Perhaps the “Reflection” is just another picture photoshopped into the windows so as to appear like a reflection
I think it’s like a corridor with glass doors on once side and a big window on the other side. The cars are parked right up against the windows on the other side and this is taken through the doors. I’ve been to a church built not unlike this.
it looks like you are just looking out at the parking lot from a room with a glass celing
Hi Guys !
I took this photo and I just want to say that this one is not photoshopped !
It could be inside a building and the cars on the outside. Those are European licence plates, and in Europe the windows can be inside.
You are all wrong! Your so dumb!
Its magic, duhhhh:)
Simple, he is inside, taking a photo of cars outside
its a picture on a wall, there’s look carefully at the edge of the red carpet, and there is clouds refleced on the windows of the cars, nice job though
As people have said before, this is obviously a photo where the cars are BEHIND the glass doors. Someone asked ‘why have random glass doors?’. That’s obvious…so they can be locked.
Other is almost right. I think the shot was taken from a window on the opposite side of a courtyard (similar to the one you see above the glass doors).
i’m not quite sure what it is, but it’s strange. the license plates are not reversed, and the ground in the reflection is all brick, while the ground in front of the windows are not.
look at the left-most pane of glass… its not on the same plane as the other glass, which would mean that if it were a reflection, the blue car would either look extremely wide, or depending on the degree of tilt, not even show up in the left most window – but it does, it continues on perfectly, as do the lines of the pavement/pavers. not to mention the license plates. and the drain in the red floor, is a dead giveaway for a roof, a low roof though, like someone said – which seems to be the case because on the side of the cars, with the tall hadges, pavers, and benches, that looks like ground level, or some kind of drive-through courtyard… it’s definitely a strange location, but it’s also definitely glass doors on a roof, and not a reflection or photoshop job. maybe Lois could tell us where it was :)
There is no illusion, if you look at it closely, you can see it’s just a window! In ful size you see the reflection of the planter on the right reflected very poorly in the glass yet the cars are very solid.
It’s not a reflection.
It’s a photo through a glass door to an outside space where there are cars.
I doubt it’s a thin building… more likely the photographer is standing in a courtyard of a larger structure, looking out through the entrance way.
Oh wow.. I just got to this blog recently but that’s fun!
I agree with those saying that it can’t be a reflection because of the license plates.. could it be that there’s actually two doors (i.e. this one, then a hallway, and then another door at the other end of the building, to the parking lot) but the camera angle was chosen such that you can’t see the bars of the other door in the back? The license plate of the right car should be yellow but it isn’t so this might be because there’s several glass walls desaturating the color maybe?? Also, the building is not straight but coming towards us in the left, so that could explain why the tiles in the left half appear to go uphill…
Hey, I can see this picture has been taken in France (the car plates), so I’m not surprized : everything is possible there! (ok, just say that cause I’m french!)…
I just took a “one hour random illusion tour ™” on your site… Wow! Do you have a clue on how many of them you have? And, doctor, am I becoming opticaholic?
It doesn’t really matter how it’s done… Still cool though.:)
This photo isnt photoshopped. The angle at which it is taken means the red “carpet” at the front is actually bricks which you can clearly see in the reflection on the glass. The cars are behind the photographer.
its not an illusion the cars are the other SIDE !
Just behind the doors at the right in the shadows there is an entrance of the apartmentbuilding. Maybe there are stairs.
The doors maybe placed against the wind, but this is definitly no reflection.
It’s not taken from a roof. The glass is just a partition between some kind of courtyard and the car park. It’s dark behind the glass because there is a roof partly over the other side. I don’t quite know if I worded that properly. It’s like, you walk through the glass doors and there’s a roof above you, like a porch or canopy that just opens out into the car park.. I know what I mean anyway haha..
This is a horrible Photshop expermant. Look at the far left window there is no disruption in the reflection after the vertical frame between the pane to the right and itself.
The Guy took it from the roof. It might be an apartment roof, with the planters. in the left there is a storm drain, which does not look like one you would see on the ground. And it looks like a slope. The camera might be on a short place, which gives the angle, and tada! You got a MOIllusion.
Maybe its painted onto the doors which could be made of something other than glass…
thats a coool picture…
thats a sweet picturee =D
It looks like the cars are on the other side of the glass. The floor is different, and there is a bench. The tint in the window tricks us into thinking it is a reflection, when it actually isn’t. Good one.
this is easy dude, it is some sort of garage, there are two exits to which. one, the glass door in front of us and a door at the back which is open so we can see the trees behind, this is why we cannot see the person taking the picture. notice that nothing is reflected in the window, not just the cars
the part before the glass doors isn’t a roof. no one ever seen drains on the ground to drain away rain water? they are small square holes covers by a grate and most of the time they are slightly lower than the rest of the ground. as you look though the doors, you can clearly see an inside wall going towards the cars and then a virtical beam juts out, it stands to reason that this is the center of the wall and there is more afterwards, then the wall stops and there is a small carpark on the other side of the building. there is a building like this in belfast, UK that has a very narrow building with a courtyard on both sides, there is no glass doors but its the same thing. the windows on this side of the glass doors could be windows for offices for natural light from a glass roofed courtyard
OMG, I am sooo sorry if I’ve ever said anything negative. I totally spaced on the fact that you have to read it, and that you’re doing us a favor by providing us witht hese illusons. I am soo sorry :(
Cool illusion, I looks really neat! Thanks 4 all the illusions!
This isn’t an optical illusion, its a photograph. The only question is how was the photograph taken.
There are several possible answers, most have which have already been provided.
Illusion of the day? Not at all… if this is the trend, you should rename this site “photo of the day”.
Boring!
Harry Potter took the pic from under his cloak thingy, duh
I already told you guys, its magic!!!!
The photographer can’t be seen because the left window has an angle to the door, and in this blind angle the photographer is evading reflection. Brilliant!!
So when will we get the solution to this? I mean, all the guessing and then just on to the next illusion? Common, gotta give us something here! What’s with the building? Is it just one glass wall or what? Thanks! ;-)
In my opinion this is, as many have said, a picture taken from inside (possibly a courtyard) that looks through glass doors to a parking lot.
The lack of a camera man is explained with the cover of one of the columns on the glass door and the use of an auto-timer.
The “space” seen in the windows above is explained by the fact that past the glass, the building extends a certain amount of meters above the entrance (which explains why it’s so dark there – it’s the shadow cast by the overhanging portion of the building).
The carpet is just an example of poor interior design. ^_^ Nice photo – it really gets you thinking!
I think many of the hypothesis above are very good, but no one will fully explain the photo. The most common approach is considering that the glass door divides the courtyard from the car park, but that alone would mean that the building is extremely thin, and there would be no room for the housings above.
I think the trick is that the wall is not aligned with the glass door, they are not on the same plane. The bottom-right corner is a good example, they don’t seem to be in touch. I think the wall plane is closer to the observer, and the door lies behind.
This would explain why the shadow cast over the upper area of the door is so big, this would be difficult if the wall were just surrounding the door. There’s also the fact that the door looks as tall as the windows, which doesn’t seem logical.
So, it seems the photographer is on a low roof, and at its edge there’s the wall of the building, and the wall has a hole through which you can see the door, fitted in the hole. The courtyard is on a lower level, and the door is at the other end of the courtyard, so the building is over it, leaving enough room for the housings, and thus making it possible for the car park to be right behind the door.
Well, it’s just another hypothesis, though at least it would justify the interest the blog author has put on the photograph ;)
It’s very obvious this is a trick picture. If you look at the left side window pane, you will notice it is on an angle therefore the reflection we see should also be on an angle but the ground is just as straight as the rest of the picture.
I agree with Kendall 100%.
if you look carefully at the reflection in the left most part of the window and the right most part of the window, you can see that it’s not a reflection of what’s inside, but what’s outside. this means that it cannot be a painting, because glass has to reflect it.
also, the lines of the tiles from the outside connect perfectly with the lines of the tiles in the reflection. the photographer probably line the reflection up.
i think it’s a window on the other side.
also, the window panes are far back, so it doesn’t have to be a “thin building”, just a small hallway. you can tell, because of how dark the shadow is.
Are you sure it’s just 3 of the same cars…. Stupid
I think it is a double exposure.
First exposure is from inside a very dark room/area looking out to some cars, second is of the very bright and uniformly lit outdoor area, it is cloudy & the sun is directly above so as not to cast much light inside the glass doors allowing the first exposure to be brighter than the windows.
mabey teh cars are not in hte photo
i think the cars were photo shopped into the doors
its all drawn on the doors
if you look carfully in the bush covering it you can see a head (looking twards the cars)
The photo was taken from inside a courtyard. We are looking through a glass wall at the parking lot outside.
OK, the license plates are not mirrored and the brick floor continues, which proves that it’s not a reflection. You can see windows on the building, which means the picture was taken outside, and there are clouds on the windows of the cars, which means the cars are outside. But if you look closely, you can see faint images that look like they’re on the other side of some very reflective glass. The windows must be one-way, though, because you can see that light is not passing through from the outside in, due to the shadows on the other side. No, wait, the faint images are reflections of this side of the glass. If you look at the parking lot, you can see there’s no room for the cars to get in and out, though. Is it a computer-generated image made with a ray-tracer, like POV-Ray? You can see some spherical object on the reflection of the tree on this side of the window, that could be a light source for the ray-tracer.
look rlly rlly closly just before the glass and just after the red stuff you can tell his on a roof
this 1 is ptless. its taken at an angle so that the reflection catches further back than usual so that it gives the appearance that a the parking lot isnt there and that the cars arent either. the reality is just that the parking lot and the cars are behind the set-up angle
FOR THOES OF YOU THAT DON’T KNOW, THE SHUTTLE OF A CAMERA (THE CLICK NOISE) IS ACTUALLY A SMALL MIRROR TURNING VERY FAST, THE GLASS DOORS ARE TINTED WHICH MAKES A MIRROR… NOW TAKE A PICTURE OF A MIRROR WITH A MIRROR…WHAT DO YOU GET…
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Was it taken from the inside of a building with the door being black glass?
What in the name of my dog is so optical illusiony about this picture….. 8-|
EASY!!! COME ON PEOPLE!! Its two seperate images.if you look close you can tell it was layered in and blended almost perfectly hence the license plates are not backwards.
So many things, so different than reality. Just see the simple things? See some even more in depth details as I explain.
Just take a moment and look closely at the bottom edge of the window frames. Notice on the left the window the ANGLE, and the reflection inside the window, the bricks aligning do not do as a REAL REFLECTION would do with an adjacent window at a slightly different angle. The bench also in the reflection is NOT what is in the foreground. Compare them and see. The many differences show the fact that this picture is a product of paint shop pro or photo shop or some graphics editor software, or even magazine pictures cut up and pasted together and a new photo taken of it. Either way it does allude the majority of you who view it, as I see from your posts. And even those of you who disbelieve it, mis-believe it, and are also tricked visually by it’s deceptiveness… I enjoy looking at the growing collection here, it’s very time consuming if allowed. I think the more people who do look at these, and pay attention rather than jump into something, and quickly make a loose comment, may come away more intelligently than when they arrived… The REAL JA37 was here…
or maybe its just a huge door sticker of a previously taken photo? lol
there is one window that face a little bit to the right, but the reflection on the mirror, is straightly facing towards.
my hypothesis is that the picture was taken from inside the car using the wing mirror.
my real theory is it has been photoshopped going byt the too straight black lines around the windows. ;)
the more obvious illusion is, where is the bench?
It is a real car through the window because if it were a reflection the ground in the reflection would match up with the real ground
Thank you for the explanation. I would have never guessed the solution. : – )
No, the question is, wheres the guy that took the photo?
oh, wait. i take that back when i saw matt’s comment.
hello people the picture was taken by a person inside the car the cars are reflected in the window cars window is too tinted to see the person
ok the picture is taken from inside the car you can also tell that you are looking at a reflection of the cars by looking and the plants because you can see the plants and the base that they are planted in reflected in the window also look at the hinges on the doors they open to the outside and here is writing on the door and the bench thing in the reflection is cut of by raising the angle of the picture it is clear a picture taken from outside the building
inside it would be to far up to be taken by car unless its a monster truck
alright, here’s what i think. its not a real reflection. there is glass but glass can be seen through doesn’t always reflects. proof is that the flooring on both sides are different, there is a missing column, and where is the bench.
where’s the bench? i can understand the cars not being in the picture, but where’s the bench, and where’s the camera? this shouldn’t be possible, unless using some sort of digital change…. or maybe the cameraman is IN on of the cars and using a telephoto lens? besides, the bench you see in the door should be clearly visible in between the door and the shrub, but it isnt. the only explainations i can think of are: 1. someone is using photoshop really well, or 2. all of the stuff is outside the door.
hmm…people, dont you see it, the photo is made from the top of a roof, u used a nice objective for the picture! :)
cheers
PS:
it is a reflection, from the carpark infront of the building, on whichs roof the photographer stands, or which he used to make this effect happend! ;)))
my mistake, he is on the building (tunnel) under him is the Banch, behind him is the parking with the cars!! :) i like the photo…so many illusion insite! cheers! ;)
the glass is at an angle
the cars have to be on the otherside of the glass. the caption says nothing of a ghost bench, and i see a bench.
i would say that the camera was in front of the cars, and, being aligned with the black part of the door, wouldn’t have a reflection…
but that doesn’t explain the bench, nor the trees.
The camera dude cant be sitting on a car cuz u cant see a person sitting on in…..?? help ??
Photoshop?
I totally agree with the first post. The picture is taken in a courtyard and the parking lot is on the other side of the doors. Also there is a bench and the walk way is totally different.
good hypothesis
I don’t get it.
1st guy is right. car plates are forward, so not a reflection
Good call on the plates. I also guessed that from the fact that the walkway is brick all the way out to the cars in the “Reflection”, but solid concrete in front of the camera.
there isn’t a reflection at all…… this is some sort of courtyard with a glass walkway… the cars are on the other side of the glass doors
Actually for me, this picture is taken inside that looks outside..do you get me?? the car and the bench is really there outside. The doors doesn’t have any glasses. It’s just a frame.