{"id":1782,"date":"2009-06-30T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T05:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2009-06-30T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T05:25:48","slug":"fauxtoshop-15-more-real-photos-that-look-faked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/30\/fauxtoshop-15-more-real-photos-that-look-faked\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauxtoshop: 15 More Real Photos that Look Faked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man walking on water, a bunny the size of a dog and a fetus floating in a starry sky \u2013 none of these things can actually be real, right? In an age when almost anyone can effectively manipulate images in Photoshop, it\u2019s easy to scoff at every incredible photograph that you see on the internet. Don\u2019t let your cynicism get the best of you. Some are the result of sheer dumb luck, others from hours of careful preparation and some exist because reality is simply stranger than fiction, but these 15 images are 100% authentic.<\/p>\n

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Walking on Water<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0marianitoz<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Speedboat driver Joe Peroceschi walked on water\u2026 sort of. After windy conditions caused his boat, Smokin Joe, to flip during the Budweiser Drag Boat Nationals race on Wappapello Lake in Missouri, Peroceschi\u00a0appeared in photos<\/a> to be momentarily running across the surface of the water. In reality, he was about to get hit by a competing boat. Miraculously, Peroceschi survived to walk again.<\/p>\n

Faux Photoshop, Literally<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0Stupid Videos<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Using a couple cardboard props and a checkered background, this photographer imitated the look of a photoshopped image in progress, seemingly using the eraser tool on himself. Impeccably lined up with the background, it\u2019s difficult to tell at first that this isn\u2019t an image in the process of being edited.<\/p>\n

Trippy Illusion in a Parking Garage<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0de-war.de<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Driving through a parking garage and seeing words floating around might lead you to think that perhaps someone put a little something in your drink. Graphic designer\u00a0Axel Peem\u00f6ller<\/a>painstakingly painted distorted letters on the walls, floors and beams of a Melbourne, Australia parking garage so that when you stand in the right spot, they seem to hover in mid-air.<\/p>\n

A Jumping Shark and Some Surfers<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

A CNN photographer just happened to snap a photo in the right place at the right time, capturing a spinner shark jumping out of the water in New Smyrna Beach, Florida just yards behind two oblivious surfers. Don\u2019t believe it?\u00a0CNN has video<\/a> showing additional images and testimony of witnesses.<\/p>\n

Johan Lorbeer\u2019s \u2018Still Life\u2019 Performances<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0ahboon<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Like\u00a0Li Wei<\/a>, Johan Lorbeer puts on seemingly gravity-defying public performances, hovering above the ground with one hand against a wall for hours at a time. He\u2019s surrounded by puzzled onlookers who just can\u2019t figure out how he does it. His secret? A fake arm connected to a harness. His real arm is hidden inside his clothes.<\/p>\n

Andre Agassi and Roger Federer: Tennis on a Helipad<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Surely, those guys aren\u2019t really playing tennis that high in the air, right? Well, yeah \u2013 and \u2018those guys\u2019 are Andre Agassi and Roger Federer. The too-crazy-to-be-real setting is actually a helipad at the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. Good thing these two tennis greats aren\u2019t afraid of heights.<\/p>\n

Can a Bunny Really be This Insanely Huge?<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0Blogsters Guild<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

This photograph is one of many that have been circulated around the internet to instant cries of \u201cPhotoshopped!\u201d But, believe it or not, rabbits this big\u00a0do exist<\/a>. Seriously.\u00a0There\u2019s video<\/a>. These giant rabbits are bred in Germany by Karl Szmolinsky \u2013 as a source of meat for the North Korean population. You can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

Truck Chased by Missiles on the Highway<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0CannesLions<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Without the little inset photo, in which you can see the tethers, this photo of a truck being chased down a highway by missiles would be pretty hard to swallow. But, the missiles are just harmless balloons. The \u2018Missile Car\u2019 was an entry in the 2009 Cannes Lions International\u00a0 Advertising Festival.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Futuristic Flood Prevention System<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0Neatorama<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

A science fiction movie could easily be shot in Japan\u2019s underground flood tunnels. The reflective floors, endless rows of towering pillars and eerie lighting makes the G-CANS project look like something out of this world. It consists of five concrete containment silos that prevent overflow of the city\u2019s major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons.<\/p>\n

Apocalyptic Street Scene<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0Metanamorph<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

Street artist Edgar Mueller is a master of optical illusion, creating chalk drawings on pavement and other surfaces that transform the space into something altogether different. This post-apocalyptic scene of a German street disintegrating into a churning sea is just one example of Mueller\u2019s many jaw-dropping street scenes. Mueller\u2019s work relies on the viewer to stand in just the right spot to see the illusion.<\/p>\n

Storefront Security Gate as Fender Guitar Amp<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0Music Radar<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

A guitar store in Southampton, England found a brilliant way to not only make its security gate more attractive, but announce what it sells in the most gleefully attention-grabbing way possible. A Fender logo adorns the gate and a sign above the store is complete with controls turned all the way up to 11.<\/p>\n

Invisible Car Art by Sara Watson<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0The Telegraph<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

What appears to be a ghostly apparition of a vehicle over Sara Watson\u2019s shoulder is actually a Skoda Fabia spray-painted to blend in with a parking lot and art studio entrance. Watson, a student at the University of Central Lancashire, worked on the paint job for three weeks. \u201cPeople have been stopping in the street to look and coming up and almost bumping into it, so it\u2019s had the desired effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Impeccably Camouflaged Orchid Mantis<\/h4>\n

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(images via:\u00a037signals<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

It\u2019s hard to tell at first whether you\u2019re looking at a flower that looks like a mantis or a mantis that looks like a flower. In fact, the orchid mantis is a rainforest insect whose legs resemble flower petals and coloring perfectly matches that of the flowers it is often found hiding inside.<\/p>\n

Three Eagles Fighting Over a Fish<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0thelastminuteblog<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

What looks like a somewhat cheesy patriotic digital image created by a computer is a real photograph of three eagles fighting over a fish in Homer, Alaska taken in March 2008 by photographer Jose Hernandez. This incredible image was one of the winners in the National Geographic 2008 International Photography Contest.<\/p>\n

A Fascinating Peek Inside the Womb<\/h4>\n

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(image via:\u00a0World Famous Photos<\/a>)<\/h6>\n

A fetus, still in its gestational sac and attached to the placenta, floats eerily against a starry background. But this is no collage, no matter how unreal it seems. It\u2019s an actual living fetus taken inside a pregnant woman\u2019s uterus with an endoscope. When Lennart Wilson showed it to LIFE Magazine\u2019s editors in 1965, they demanded witnesses to prove that it was real. It remains one of the magazine\u2019s most iconic cover images.<\/p>\n

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