20 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 11) #10.
Our Poor Son Has Stallone Disease Fabian Bimmer/Reuters So ... a couple of tourists with a cardboard cutout of Sylvester Stallone? Two guys at a 75-percent-scale wax museum? A pair of brothers badly Photoshopping movie stars into their vacation photos to impress their Facebook friends? Because that's just ... cartoonish. But the monsters surrounding him there are the Klitschko brothers, heavyweight boxers in the 6-foot-7 range. . #9. Gizmodo.com Here's yet another one that would have been far, far easier to just Photoshop than to stage a complicated scene that merely results in something that still looks like Photoshop. Gizmodo.comAnd we're guessing it takes a shitload of attempts to get this just right. #8.
Justin Lee/Caters News AgencyPresenting God's urinal. It looks like somebody wasn't satisfied with this waterfall being a perfectly beautiful piece of scenery in its completely unaltered state and decided to add some "flair" in the form of rainbow colors in the mist. #7. . #6. . #5. . #4. 20 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 11)
It's time again for our most popular feature, in which we take photos that have made millions of Internet users scream "FAKE!
" and prove that they are, in fact, real. In case you missed the previous episodes, here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous editions, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 and Part 10. #20. Oakley Taps into a New Market Frank Korte/Guenter Kamlage/epa/Corbis"Deal with it. " Even though it looks like a still from some goofy CGI ad they'd show during the Super Bowl (maybe the cool fly is about to drink a tiny bottle of Pepsi), this is an actual photograph of a set of 2-millimeter-wide sunglasses being worn by a common housefly. The picture was submitted to a science photo competition back in 2005 to promote advances in laser machining (you can make things ridiculously tiny now!). #19. Mario ModestoA rule 365 million years in the making. #18. 36 Perfectly Timed Animal Shots. 19 Surreal Images (and Their Mind-Blowing Explanations)
15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped. It's hard to be amazed by anything you see online, when you know any teenager with a computer and a pirated copy of Photoshop can cobble together a fake photograph in minutes.
Unfortunately this means there's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping yet real pics that the internet declared "FAKE! " the moment they appeared. A couple of times a year we collect the most amazing/ridiculous examples. Enjoy the first 15 images below, be sure to follow the link at the end for the rest of our mind-boggling library. The Machine Apparently Made to Saw the World in Half What appears to be some normal-sized machine cropped and pasted onto a skyline is actually a gigantic machinized monstrosity designed for excavation by some Germans. If this thing's secretly a transformer, we're screwed. Yes, this push-pop made of "Macaroni & Cheese in Chili Sauce With Beef" is very real, part of a "convenience meets nausea" movement to provide your favorite foods on the go in a microwaveable, cardboard tube.
Namibia's Coastal Parks - Behind the Lens: Photograph or Painting? While on assignment in Namibia for National Geographic magazine, Frans Lanting captured this surreal landscape image in a location called Dead Vlei.
Due to the nature of the lighting in the frame, the photograph appears almost like a painting. We asked Lanting to take a few moments away from his current assignment in Africa to answer readers' questions about the photograph. Due to limited internet connectivity in the field, he was only able to provide brief responses to questions, so we asked Elizabeth Krist—Lanting's photo editor for this story—to offer additional detail where appropriate. (If you are interested in acquiring this image as a fine art print, please e-mail gallery@lanting.com.)
From Shay Mordo: Absolutely amazing composition! Lanting: Here's a short summary about the making of the photo. Web. Triangle. Triangle2. Sand. Cloud. Goats_ps. Iceberg. Trash. Crab2. Airliner2. I think he's a little low. Cavebackup.